Lucas Benjaminh Krech

The Seven Deadly Sins was produced by The Crucible as a “Fire Opera.” The intent being to reinvent and reconceive traditional opera text through setting it within the context of the Industrial Arts School’s various disciplines. Fire Arts and Fine Arts met in the 56,000 square foot warehouse for an evening of frenetic engaging theatre.

Anna worked with molten glass, manipulated acetylene torches, and forged steel.

The performance space was a ninety foot long catwalk only four feet wide. The audience sat in arena style seating on either side of the catwalk. At either end of the runway were stages.

The space provided a number of design challenges. Not a performance venue, we rigged trussing and pipes from various architectural structures. Despite the avant garde nature of the production, traditional dramatic lighting was necessary to integrate the drama with the fire elements.