Written by Adam Rapp

Directed by James Vesce
Choreography by Cameron Wade
Scenic and Lighting Design: Bruce Auerbach
Costume Design: Paula Garofalo
Sound Design: James Vesce
Video Design: Jay Morong

Lab Theater, UNC Charlotte

Nocturne is a monologue play in five parts that skillfully integrates poetic speech with narrative and dialogue through the lens of a narrator’s memory. It is an energetic, intense and relevant drama that emphasizes both the paralyzing and toxic effects of tragedy with the hint of redemption and transformation. The secondary characters will be considered “ghosts” – present as shadows in the staging of the play and in selected video sequences as two-dimensional figures with or without voices. The one exception will be the presence of the father as a character onstage with the son in Part IV.

The most essential goal of this production was to present the narrator’s story as an event somewhere between a live performance and a film or video. Video (the impressionistic memory of the narrator) was the primary design feature of the production and the narrator interacted with the video design as a function of his memory.