The Association of Lighting Designers

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GLP X4 Bar 20s Provide Leading Edge For AJ Tracey At Ally Pally

Lighting designer James Scott (of Suluko) specified 96 impression X4 Bar 20 battens from GLP when London-based rapper / producer AJ Tracey played two shows at Alexandra Palace recently. The gigs were the culmination of a long year in which Scott had been an essential part of the artist’s creative team, headed by Tawbox, as […] The post GLP X4 Bar 20s Provide Leading Edge For AJ Tracey At Ally...

White Light Supplies You Stupid Darkness! at Southwark Playhouse

White Light has supplied the lighting for You Stupid Darkness! which recently opened at the Southwark Playhouse, London. Presented by Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth, You Stupid Darkness! is an urgent new play set within the Brightline Call Centre and focuses on four colleagues who try to keep their lives together whilst the outside world falls apart. The Lighting Designer on the show is...