Sound and Lighting Choices for each Episode

Question 1

Episode 1 - lighting?

Answer 1

1. Red light from beginning to end of YW ending monologue

2. End with blackout

Question 2

Episode 1 - sound?

Answer 2

1. typewriters, adding machine, manifold, telephone bells, buzzers (soundscape

Question 3

Episode 2 - lighting?

Answer 3

1. spotlight changes from Young Woman and Mother conversation, girl and boy convo, man and woman convo, wife and husband convo
2. blackout at the end

Question 4

Episode 2 - sound?

Answer 4

1. radio playing God bless America - STOPS PLAYING ONCE SPEAKING BEGINS
2. somewhere over the rainbow starts playing - ‘I’ll do the dishes’
3. change then into upbeat jazz instrumental

Question 5

Episode 3 - sound?

Answer 5

1. continuation of upbeat jazz instrumental from episode 2, which stops at Mr. Jones’ line; “well you don’t want them looking in, do you”
2. ends with initial jazz music

Question 6

Episode 3 - lighting?

Answer 6

1. pink lights to begin
2. normal lights when jazz music stops at Mr. Jones’ line; “well you don’t want them looking in, do you”
3. lights dim @ ‘you got to learn to relax, little girl’
4. blackout

Question 7

episode 4 - sound?

Answer 7

1. jazz music stops
2. a repetitive beat is heard when the husband enters (oomf oomf, pause. oomf oomf, pause) - heartbeat tempo. Gets faster when she coughs, and ends when the husband leaves.

Question 8

episode 4 - lighting?

Answer 8

1. blue spotlight when Young Woman’s monologue begins

2. ends with blackout

Question 9

episode 5 - sound?

Answer 9

1. playing “down at p.j.’s place” - blues piano song (THROUGHOUT EPISODE)
2. gets quieter when the second man and girl leave… ‘i know what business is like’ - switches to more romantic instrumental music
   ‘what kind of pebbles?’ [beat].

Question 10

episode 5 - lighting?

Answer 10

1. normal light, with spotlight moving as each pair talks

2. when roe and YW talk, should be a pink spotlight’

Question 11

episode 6 - sound

Answer 11

1. cielito lindo (popular song that was popularly played on the hand organ at the time) plays, gets quieter (background music as they talk, but gets louder when man starts singing along
2. sound of ‘wolf whistling’ at beginning of scene as they change

Question 12

episode 6 - lightning

Answer 12

1. spotlight on couple

Question 13

episode 7 - sound

Answer 13

1. dead silence
2. phone rings
   - after ‘owns a life interest’
   - after ‘it must be something’
   - ‘people can look in’
3. echo feedback on their voices from line - ‘i feel as though I were drowning’ stops at ‘just on breath’
4. ensemble all breathe on YW line - ‘just on breath’
5. cielito lindo starts playing on ‘all free.’
6. as lights become red, cielito song should be played distorted and louder over voices

Question 14

episode 7 - lighting

Answer 14

1. green spotlight on couple
2. as voices say stones, light flashes to beat of the voices saying ‘stones’
3. after stones, as the voices repeat ‘free’ the light should gradually go from normal spotlight, to a gradual red flood of light

Question 15

episode 8 - sound?

Answer 15

1. machinery sound effect (in the background)
2. suspenseful, daunting music
3. first ‘i did not’ - tazing sound
4. second ‘i did not’ - louder, longer tazing sound
5. third ‘i did it! i did it! i did it!’ - repeated longer tazing sound, then silence

Question 16

episode 8 - lighting?

Answer 16

1. begins with red, end with blackout

Question 17

episode 9 - lighting?

Answer 17

1. blue light
2. as priest lists significant Christian figures, ‘st. Gabriel, st. Raphael…’ lights back to normal
3. blinding lights when YW says ‘somebody! somebod-‘

Question 18

episode 9 - sound?

Answer 18

1. begins angelic music
2. as priest prays, negro singing ‘wade in the water’
3. gets louder when priest speaks latin
4. ‘whirring sound’ after ‘trust in God’