SCENOGRAPHY for
a site specific production at PAIKKA in MINNEAPOLIS, MN
WRITTEN by OSCAR WILDE
DIRECTED by GRANT SORENSON
SETS + COSTUMES by JOSH OBERLANDER
LIGHTS by JACQLIN STAUDER
A semi immersive production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome situates the audience on the other side of an already-thrown banquet for Herod’s birthday. While the guests party in the next room and the waiters begin to clear the table, Salome enters to hear the forbidden utterances of Iokanaan, setting off a Freudian, symbolist psychodrama of a family self-destruction, tyranny decaying.
"This is a rare chance to see Oscar Wilde's play Salomé, and not just see it, but experience it as if you were a guest at this very uncomfortable and disturbing, yet fully engrossing, party. Theater doesn't get much more thrilling and immediate and visceral than this." - Cherry & Spoon
a site specific production at PAIKKA in MINNEAPOLIS, MN
SALOME
WRITTEN by OSCAR WILDE
DIRECTED by GRANT SORENSON
SETS + COSTUMES by JOSH OBERLANDER
LIGHTS by JACQLIN STAUDER
A semi immersive production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome situates the audience on the other side of an already-thrown banquet for Herod’s birthday. While the guests party in the next room and the waiters begin to clear the table, Salome enters to hear the forbidden utterances of Iokanaan, setting off a Freudian, symbolist psychodrama of a family self-destruction, tyranny decaying.
"This is a rare chance to see Oscar Wilde's play Salomé, and not just see it, but experience it as if you were a guest at this very uncomfortable and disturbing, yet fully engrossing, party. Theater doesn't get much more thrilling and immediate and visceral than this." - Cherry & Spoon
"Director Grant Sorenson eschews traditional theatrical forms, creating something immediate, immersive, and visceral." - The Stages of MN
"Director Grant Sorenson has created an incredibly cohesive “semi-immersive” production buoyed by the charismatic and deeply thoughtful performances by the cast. Written by Oscar Wilde in a time when biblical characters were banned on London stages, the script absolutely vibrates with satire, comedy, and social commentary that still resonates one hundred and thirty years after its debut." - Aisle Say Twin Cities
