The lighting design for the play "Big Love" aims to enhance the scenes and pull all elements on stage together to focus on conveying the play's message. Visibility of actors and key elements like the bathtub is important, while selectively showing the audience only what the director wants them to see. Lighting will be used to shape forms and reveal depth through techniques like backlighting during intense scenes like a murder or soft, low lighting for romantic scenes like a wedding. Spotlights will draw attention to the three main women characters, while keeping the background dimmer. Lighting will help set the mood and style of different scenes through techniques such as flashing red lights for intensity and soft lavender lights for romance.