Lighting In Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'

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The 2016 Best Lighting Academy Award went to “Hamilton” by Howell Binkley last year. Who won 2017? The Best Lighting Award goes to…“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. One reason the play “The Raven” has received the Best Lighting Academy Award is that the lighting castes immense shadows in the narrator's room. The shadows made the room look creepy and dismal. When the shadows were casted the audience could see the setting and feel the mood. In addition, the lighting made the room different colors at specific points in the play. When the narrator was going insane, the lighting simultaneously transformed to a purple color. This made the play more enjoyable to watch because the lighting kept converting to semi-dark to purple to semi-dark again.