Off on Holiday

Summer Round - by Nigel A.  JAMES

We are on Holiday!  The next edition of Diarikom will appear in the first week of August. A very happy summer to you all!  Nj.

Gerhard Berent On the Spot

Gerhard BERENT  photo by Nigel A.  JAMES

 Spot On! A Very Light Life

There are many ingredients which go to make up good theatre. One needs, amongst other things, a very good story, exciting scenery, make up to produce the unrecognizable, and, of course, an audience to match. But, without one vital component, the stage as we know it would be lifeless and dull, and, this magic component that makes all of the difference is the lighting; and, as Gerhard Berent knows only too well, stage lighting means very much more than a bulb and the flicking of a switch!

Gerhard saw the light very many years ago, and his company provided all that was needed for the perfect illumination of those moments of magic that build on the fantasy of that which is about to come true! 

But, of course, there comes a time in most people’s life when a change of direction is necessitated by the number of years that one has to one’s credit. Most people give up!  But not Gerhard. He is now more active than ever!  As a freelance journalist and photographer, he now writes for the theatre lighting trade press.  And, his articles and essays are just as illuminating as his lights used to be! And, this has to do with the style of his writing.

And style, in part, is ingredients, too.  His life, until now,  wasn’t narrow at all, in fact, it had angles of excitement that provided the broad base of experience that shows in his work.  His life was theatre, it was family,  it was traveling, it was reading, and, it was studying. And, apart from his native German, Gerhard is fluent in English and Italian, too.  French, he says, will be his next language!  And, what’s next is that which is now.  Gerhard has no intention of bringing down the final curtain.  The last act will happen when it happens.

A Village Stage - Ink by Nigel A.   JAMES