YOU ARE A LIGHTHOUSE

If you think it, we will see it.

YOU ARE A LIGHTHOUSE

The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening — Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse (1927)

Just like people, lighthouses come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They might be tall or short, they might be built from stone or wood or metal. No matter the architecture of the lighthouse, the most important thing is the radiance of the lamp. The lighthouse-keeper has to tend to the lens and the lantern to keep the light bright and clear.

Your task as an actor is to tend to your own lamp and lens to keep your light shining.

Check out these 150-year-old Fresnel lenses below. Augustin-Jean Fresnel invented this system of the lens being stepped or ridged so that light could refract and reflect on itself to intensify the beam. Fresnel lenses were first used in the 1800s as the lens that focuses the beam in lighthouse lamps. 

These days of course most lighthouses are automated and the bulbs are solar or LED…