A HUNDRED YEARS FROM TODAY
Lighting Design
A HUNDRED YEARS FROM TODAYLucia Neare's Theatrical Wonders
Redmond Downtown Park |
Direction: Lucia Neare
Creative Collaboration: Rhonda Sable, Dwight Beckmeyer, Dean Paton, Melanie White, Christopher Mael, Annette Mateo, Karen Lewis, Ned Beebe, Toby Hansen, Saunatina Sanchez, Gary Cannon, Guy Caridi, Jessica Jobaris, Justice Beitzel, Robin Campbell, Lorraine Lau, Mark Haim, Beth Brock, Cheri Rudolph, Betsy Baeskins, Erin Gabriel, Matt Goodrich, Winfield Hobbs, Diane Magasich, Sue Dunagan, Caitlyn Pozerski, Chris Dimnoff |
A Hundred Years from Today was a public blessing for Redmond's new Downtown Park to last the ages. The work combined rich spectacle and interactive elements with community participation to highlight the park’s 21st-Century design and to consecrate and celebrate the site as Redmond’s true urban center. There were parades! A live orchestra! A 44-foot Caterpillar named Caterina Pillarina (who floated above the crowds and had special words for the Mayor)! A potluck pie picnic! Mice playing badminton! Hijinks! A Butterfly Blessing to celebrate the metamorphosis of this once-upon-a-time used auto-parts store into the new civic heart of Redmond. Audiences were free to wander the site – and experience the performance – following their own timing, whim, and curiosities. A Hundred Years from Today invited all to experience this new urban park as a place for Everyone.