"Ruined" Lights and Sounds

Lights
For the most part, lighting would be fairly dim. Bright enough so that you can see things clearly, but not as bright as it would be if you were outside during the afternoon. The scenes inside the bar would be fairly dark, also reflecting the sad mood of the play and the nighttime scenes would be the darkest. Scenes inside the bedroom would be brighter, because I always imagined the bedroom having an open window to allow for air circulation. Scenes that take place outside during the day or inside the bar once it has been attacked would be the brightest because of the "natural light". Most of the light would come from the stage left since that is where the entrance/exit to the "outside" is for the bar scenes. My reasoning for all this is because I want to portray everything onstage realistically to a point. There would also be specific lights- for instance, if a scene starts or ends with Sophie or someone else singing, there will be a spotlight on the platform. If its at the beginning of a scene, the rest of the stage will light up as the action begins; if at the end, everything will fade to that spotlight until it too fades out. Different colored lights will also be used to reflect various moods during certain events. For example, as Salima is telling her backstory, the spotlight on her will become red with anger and fear as her story intensifies, then suddenly goes to blue as she breaks down. The scene where the bar is attacked will also be cast in a red light to symbolize the danger and fear that the women are feeling and the anger that the soldiers are feeling. Night scenes and rainy scenes will have a blue light and outdoor scenes that are not rainy will have a slightly green cast to them, seeing as they are in a rainforest area.

Sounds
Any music that is in the play would be pulled from either the script or Congolese music. The music would be generated from the band that is sitting to one side of the stage and would play when mentioned in the script and between scenes to keep the audience entertained as set pieces are moved on and offstage. Music between the scenes would correlate to what is going on in the scene before it, whether it be a regular day(happy music) or a bad day(sad music).
Sound effects would be precorded sounds. When house opens and audience is coming in to take their seats, they would hear the sounds of the rainforest that are mentioned at some parts in the script along with a gentle mix of traditional Congolese music with perhaps a slight mournful tone to it to help set the mood. From time to time, the audience would hear gunshots mixed with men shouting angrily in Swahili and women screaming. I feel as if many of the sound effects are pretty self-explanatory; right before soldiers come in, there's going to be the sound of a truck pulling up, parking, and unloading people and after they exit, hear them get in the truck, pull out, and drive away. For scenes where the fighting is getting closer to the building, gunshots are heard from around the theatre. For scenes that take place in the rain, sounds of heavy rain and thunder would be heard.
And I'm still trying to figure out the deal with the parrot.......

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