Jeremy Knight
theatrical projection design and videography
 


The End of the Affair

By Jake Heggie, libretto by Heather McDonald and Leonard Foglia, based on the novel by Graham Greene. Directed by Mark Streshinsky, lighting design by Kevin Landesman. Produced by West Edge Opera at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, California, August, 2014.


The Ed Roberts Campus isn't actually a theater space, and with the August sun setting after 8pm, ambient light was a definite problem for the projections. Rear projection with a 7700-lumen theatrical projector onto a relatively small 11'x6' screen mitigated that difficulty somewhat, though the images were still quite washed-out at the matinee performance.


Streshinsky, working with Frederic O. Boulay (technical director), Christine Crook (costumes) and Jeremy Knight (projection designer), effectively evoked the atmosphere of wartime London on a platform set encompassing multiple playing spaces.
     —Georgia Rowe, San Jose Mercury News

The creative forces at WEO did a lot with a little: There was a system for supertitles, and the multifunctional stage was changed from one location to another with the simple moving of props, some straightforward theatrical and sound effects and the background projection of a war-era English living room, a church window or a bombed-out London street.
     —Niels Swinkels, San Francisco Classical Voice
























Dress rehearsal photographs by Allesandra Mello, mellopix.com














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