This was excellently written! I now have some books and articles to add to my library.
We use red in theatre for many of the same applications. From the most basic of concepts we utilize warm white where red is the highest color value to demonstrate scenarios of happiness and joy. We use cool white, where red is the lowest color value to demonstrate moods of cold, loneliness and isolation.
When using deeper warm colors we have on the magenta side of red concepts like childhood, cuteness, and as you get closer to red, you have sexual passion and on to violence. Heading towards orange violence becomes heat, like that of a brightly-burning coal-furnace or fire, and on towards yellow where it can be the late afternoon sun signaling the end of a hard day's work.
Of course these color-ideas are mixed and matched with other color concepts to create a scenic space that can add to the intensity of a scene, like the young hungry child dressed in blue sneaking through the cool moonlight shining down one half of a living room, while a threatening abusive parent figure faces away towards a bright terrifying orange fireplace.
I also frequently utilize red to express low-frequency tones when performing music visualizations for events.
Well, it sound really exciting. Yes, I did not write about the different shades of red - that can add a lot of varieties. What I love about colours that even with a single colour you can express a lot of things and generate completely different emotions using different shades.
My concept here is to make everyone understand the meaning of the basic, pure colours, and yes after that the sky is the limit!
I really enjoyed reading your comment, it must be exciting to experiment with different effects in the theatre, light can add a lot to the performance.
Thank you! ...and of-course, you have to start somewhere! I'm guessing you are you going to go through the subtractive color model, first?
Yes, that's the plan! :-)