Baño de luna (Bathing in Moonlight)
Produced by: Gala Hispanic Theatre Director & Playwrite: Nilo Cruz Set Design: Clifton Chadick Projection Design: Hailey LaRoe Lighting Design: Christian Henrriquez Costume Design: Cidney Forkpah Props Design: Luke Hartwood Sound Design: Justine Schmidz
A beautiful story about a priest in the Catholic Church struggling with his forbidden love for a women, and a family struggling with their own hardships and internal conflicts. To me this story is about love more than anything. The script, the design, and the acting come together beautifully to tell this elegant and moving story.
From Gala’s website: Enter a world where love's forbidden allure leads to a relationship between Father Monroe, a devout Catholic priest, and a beguiling Havana pianist from his parish. This spellbinding drama explores the depths of passion, moral conflict, and sacrifice. Will they choose faith or surrender to the irresistible pull of their heartstrings?
Sumérgete en un mundo en el que sucumbir a la atracción prohibida conlleva a una relación amorosa entre el devoto padre católico Monroe y una seductora pianista cubana, miembro de su parroquia. Este fascinante drama explora a profundadidad la pasión, el conflicto moral y el sacrificio. Elegirán los amantes aferrarse a su fe o se dejarán llevar por la fuerza de sus sentimientos?
Reviews for Bathing in MoonLight
“the set is a subtle yet poignant representation of the looming presence of the church. Hailey Laroe’s projection design impressively utilized the set’s white walls to enhance the fluidity the space, using visuals of religious iconography, beautiful floral patterns, or even ethereal glows to transport us through locales and states of mind.”
“the platforms are surrounded by large rectangular screens on which Hailey Laroe’s superb projections are displayed. The shapes do not seem accidental. The history of the family, and the strictures of the Church, exist within the rectangles. When the projections depict a church setting, the religious paintings shown are themselves rectangles, often mingled with what looks like chain link fencing. In other scenes, the projections show open, natural settings, like woods on a magical night, a vision of the open human hearts with which the play is concerned.”
“It’s a striking setup, especially when flooded with Christian D. Henrriquez’s dramatic lighting and Hailey LaRoe’s colorful projections: stained glass, religious paintings, eddying stars. The imposing visuals complement the epic issues Padre Monroe is wrestling with: Would a loving God really require us to cut off part of our nature? Might loving a particular person strengthen our spirituality?”
“Clifton Chadick’s scenery of stony stage surrounded by fabric screens adapts fluidly, through lighting and projections, to evoke secret meeting places or a church confessional, or the sweetly romantic land of possibility a moonstruck grandmother visits in her dreams.”