Chahine Yavroyan obituary by Anthony Neilson

Innovative lighting designer who ushered in a new era of stage drama settingWhen Chahine Yavroyan, who has died of cancer aged 68, arrived in London in the early 1970s, theatrical lighting was almost an afterthought: it was normally flat, white and frontal. Chahine's innovative use of side-lights, minimalist rigs and unusual colour schemes ushered in a new era of poetic lighting for stage drama and helped to establis…

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