Chapter 12
The spotlight shone on the top of Jeremy’s bowed head, diffusing into a softer ring around his crouched form. Others were on the stage with him, but they hovered out of sight, blanketed by the darkness kept so studiously away from the character of Kip throughout the play. It wouldn’t touch him now, either, a choice Mick had surprised everyone with at the last minute. In the original script, Kip’s final moments came with a dimming of the lights. Spencer intended it as a visual representation of his death, but he saw now that had been trite.
By keeping the light on Kip while the supporting characters uttered their lines from the nothingness surrounding him, Mick kept him alive through the fall of the final curtain. “It symbolizes how he’s still living in all of us,” he’d explain
