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A film poster showing several pale points of light drifting above dark wet grass under a night sky.
The one-sheet the troupe ratified collectively, which took one meeting and one vote. We were impressed.

Drift

2025·Delivered. One grievance outstanding, amicably.·1 h 09 m

Actors made of light refuse their marks, and it turns out to be the point.

The Wisps’ night musical, and the production that taught us something we probably should have known already about lighting an actor who is themselves light.

We spent four nights chasing the troupe around their marks. On the fifth, Yuki Tanaka stopped, set the light where the film needed it, and let the marks come to the light instead. The schedule recovered inside a week and the film found its subject in the same move, which we are still talking about.

The Wisps unionized mid-shoot. The union was correct and we said so. One grievance remains outstanding and both parties describe the relationship as warm, which it very much is.

We drifted. They kept the light on us. That's all we ask. (See attached grievance.)
The Wisps · Performing troupe, Drift
A night exterior set where points of light hover above wet grass while a gaffer adjusts a lamp on a stand.
Night four, the night Yuki stopped chasing them. Every night after that one came in early and the whole unit was in a wonderful mood.