Learning from Barun Kar, Nepali theatres hope to improve light designs. What were his key lessons anyway?

Sangita Uranw, an actor, recently completed a seven-day workshop on light designing for theatre titled Understanding Light Understanding Dark at Shilpee Theatre , Bastisputali, Kathmandu. More than for attending the workshop per se, she was happy for getting an opportunity to meet Barun Kar, a veteran Indian light designer face-to-face.

“In all these years, I have never got an opportunity to take such a workshop, let alone meeting such a respected personality” says Uranw, “I always wanted to be a part of such learning. Prior to this. I just had a basic notion about the lighting.”