The Idiot, Neworld Theatre and the Push Festival, Freddy Wood Theatre, Vancouver, 2013

Directed by James Fagan Tait, Music by Joelysa Pankanea, Set by Bryan Pollock, Costumes by Mara Gottler, Lighting by Itai Erdal

Nominated to a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

“In many ways, the design, especially Itai Erdal’s lighting, is the star of this telling. Often, the warmly lit skin tones and beautiful fabrics, with darkness surrounding them, evoke the paintings of Rembrandt. At other times, bodies, molded by light, acquire the exquisite weight of sculptures.”

Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight 23.01.2012

“Itai Erdal’s brilliant lighting design has a transformational effect on the empty stage. Using the back wall of the stage as a blank canvas, the design is visually stunning and wonderfully evocative in setting the atmosphere of the scene at hand.”

Murray Patterson, mpmgArts 26.01.2012