ABSTRACT
The lighting key indicates the plan angle for each instrument, but it provides no information about the sectional angle. The lighting key is used as a guide for placing and coloring the instruments that will be used to illuminate each lighting area. In many arena and thrust theatres, a permanent lighting grid hangs over the stage. A lighting design exists in time as well as space. It ebbs and flows as the mood of the play changes. To create a temporal development in the lighting design, it is necessary to introduce the concept of layering into the design. Layering is primarily an organizational tool of the lighting designer. It refers specifically to the process of designing layers of light. The lighting key’s distribution has been slightly modified because of the position of the audience relative to the stage. The distribution of the lighting key for the arena production is no different from the thrust stage configurations.
