Bringing Hell to the Hale: Designing “Hellfire”
There are moments in theatre where suggestion just isn’t enough.
“Hellfire” is one of those. From the beginning, I wasn’t interested in this reading as a lighting effect or a projection trick. Frollo isn’t imagining hell in this moment, he’s confronting it. In a space where the audience sits just feet away and surrounds the action, anything that feels representational breaks down quickly. If it looks like an effect, the moment loses its weight.
So the goal became straightforward: make it feel real.