I recently shot a portrait of Darin Dahms for an advance the Tribune ran on his play, “The Player King.” The production is a one-man play written, directed and performed by Dahms about Edwin Booth, the brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. I used a pretty simple lighting setup: one Canon 580 EX fired through a shoot-through umbrella at about 1/32 power. Dialing the power down this low allowed me to mix in the ambient from the theater’s house lights. Since it was a one-man play I wanted to show Dahms alone on the stage in front of the theater’s seats. After the portrait, I shot a quick video interview with Dahms explaining the play.
![Darin Dahms Darin Dahms poses for a portrait dressed as Edwin Booth, the brother of assassin John Wilkes Booth, on Monday, March 19, 2012, on the stage at the Battell Center's auditorium in Mishawaka. Dahms is set to perform in "The Player King," a one-man play inspired by the lives of Edwin Booth, Junius Booth and John Wilkes Booth. Following the Lincoln assassination, Edwin Booth is forced to leave the stage and questions whether he will ever be able to return. The play will be performed one night only at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 23. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dahms031912a.jpg)
![Darin Dahms Darin Dahms rehearses a scene from "The Player King," on Monday, March 19, 2012, on the stage at the Battell Center's auditorium in Mishawaka. The one-man play inspired by the lives of Edwin Booth, Junius Booth and John Wilkes Booth. Following the Lincoln assassination, Edwin Booth is forced to leave the stage and questions whether he will ever be able to return. The play will be performed one night only at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 23. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dahms031912d.jpg)
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