This production is intended to be bright and full of life to remind audiences that even in our darkest hours, love, faith, and friendships will always glow for us.

The play is primarily the story of Annie and after the death of her husband John, she relies on her friends to point her in the direction of the sun. And much like a sunflower, she achieves some of her best and most awe-inspiring moments later in life. This aspect of light, its reflection of emotion and its effects on living things became an important aspect of my design.

The script sets the story in a church. I put the focus on stained glass windows because of how they need the sunlight to reach their full potential. And because of how beautifully they illuminate the world around them once they've been exposed to the light.

Each of the six arching windows are a different height, representing the undulating hills of the Yorkshire dales. The lead lines within the windows are meant to look like hills shrinking into the distance, while each of the figures within the windows are interacting with animals in small vignettes giving the impression that they could be existing outside in the dales.

The windows were painted in such a way to let light and gobos shine through them from behind.