KILELE
UN EPOPEYA ARTISINAL
DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
JANUARY 2025
Directed By: Juliana Morales Carreño
Costume Design: Tricie Bergmann
Scene Design: Karen Loewy Movilla
Projections Designer: Christian Killada
Sound Design and Original Music by XI (Zoey) Lin 林曦
Concept Statement
Concept Statement:
"What a beautiful sea of lights, don't you agree?" - Manisalva
Shadows create multitudes and also have the ability to make our subject larger than any direct light could. In Kilele, using shadows, we were able to transform the space and make the figures and emotions in any scene larger than life could present in any moment. Tragasmiando, a fictional town where the victims of an explosion in a church along the Atrato river wander for a new home and in search of a hero to send them to rest. Based on the real-life tragedy in Bojaya, Columbia; this story follows our hero named Viajero as he drifts down the Atrato River avenging the victims of a gas bomb attack on a church full of women and children. In this world the lighting was used to transport the characters into a multitude of different spaces and extensions of emotion rather than any one realistic location. In its past, this play would be done by a giant community of actors pulling props and elements from a trunk to tell the story. In this rendition, 9 actors played a whole towns worth of characters and the lighting was used in tandem with music and projections to make this all possible.