An Act of God
Produced by Next Stop Theatre company Director: Tuyet Thi Pham Projection Designer: Patrick Lord Associate Projections Designer: Hailey LaRoe (me) Lighting Designer: Doug DelPizzo Set Designer: Evan Hoffmann Costumes Designer: Paris Francesca Sound Designer: Neil McFadden Props Designer: Amy Kellett
Next Stop Theatre Company’s An Act of God is a comedic re-imagining of the word as told by God, what the almighty entity thinks we got wrong and right, and what God plans for ‘his’ own future. God comes to us in the form of the brilliant actor, Jacob Yeh, assisted by two divine angels to re-hash the ten commandments through an interactive power-point-esk presentation to the audience. The production is upbeat, thought provoking, and just plane fun to watch. This project was such a joy to work on. Creating God’s power point, as well as enhancing other story telling elements thought the show, saw certainly a fun challenge.
The Design Process & Content Creation
The Flood
Throughout The Show God clicks through a series of power point slides and gives anecdotes related to them. the following images who the content I found and created to illustrate God’s retelling of the Noah’s Arch story
Biblical text about the flood. I have highlighted section of the text referred in the play
Production photo of text overlaid with water
Found image used for stain glass windows
Edited window to fit the projection mapping
Found graphic for Noah's Arc moment
Production photo of how the arc images were used together
Twitter Questions
There were significant moments of audience participation written into the show in which one of the angels would ‘take questions from the audience’ pre-determined in the script. Due to Covid-19 and a desire to enhance the visibility of these audience questions, we decided to turn this moment into a series of twitter posts. The following images and videos show this process and how it looking in real life.
Dove stain glass eluding to twitter
Multiple tweets animated to rush on screen over top each other showing an influx of questions
The Audience question in tweet form over popping up over top the other questions
Production photo of a twitter moment
Production photo of a twitter moment