I used the gallery's existing lights to put some colours into the ceiling to create general ambience and prevent the audience bumping into things. These were coloured with a range of lavenders and turquoises, because I wanted to try and give a sense of the space being a bit ethereal and on the periphery of worlds and felt hoped this colouring would have a residual association with dusk and water, both of which are pretty traditional for links between the real 'audience' world and somewhere more spiritual. This also helped to remove the piece from the standar indoor/outdoor and warm/cold distinctions that weren't really appropriate for such a form- and genre-transmuting event. In the centre of the room I dribbled a grubby slate green to make a decent central pool for the characters' inanimate husks to be discovered in as the audience arrived.

I then rounded up three desk lamps to sit at the bases of the room's central pillars. These were manipulated (by me, in costume) during the course of the evening to punch through the incense-hazed murk and pick out important events.

Photography and collage is by me, photographs were snatched during rehearsals inbetween angelpoise puppetry and hence are somewhat blurry.