ACT II SCENE II

A pair of streetlights act out Act II Scene II (the balcony scene) from Romeo and Juliet in Morse code.

Here it is installed at Somerset House for Now Play This festival of experimental games (2023).

Very nice to get a mention in Keza MacDonald’s Guardian article.

animated gif of the streeghtlights outside somerset house blinkng at each other

Huge thanks to Nick Murray and V Buckenham for making it possible.

ACT II SCENE II was originally a video animation:

Shown at Soundstripes (part of Yorkshire Silent Film Festival), live-scored by Frame Ensemble at Abbeydale Picture House, Sheffield, UK) and in “The Window Project – Winter Showreel” in Cambridge, UK.