Gross Indecency

Scenic & Projection Design

Directed by Andrew Nogasky
Scenic & Projection Design: Lindsay Webster
Costume Design: Tesia Benson
Lighting Design: Maya Michele Fein
Sound Design: Kaitlyn Smith
Technical Direction: Dylan Fujimura
Assistant Technical Direction: Derek Alley
Production Stage Manager: McKenna Pfeiffer
Assistant Stage Manager: Jessica Hartley
Assistant Stage Manager: Luke Lanning

Photos by Steve Wagner

Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts
Kleist Black Box Theatre,
October 2024

Design Concept:

Aiming to make the audience feel as though they are in the courtroom with us, this production is staged as an intimate thrust. Three spaces - a liminal space, the courtroom floor, and a judge's podium - separate in layers reality from fiction.

Inspired by late Victorian molding, this courtroom becomes a kind of gilded cage where Oscar has positioned himself a stage for his Aesthetic manifesto. As he romanticizes the courtroom and his memories, pages of literature and love letters painted with Art Nouveau inspired floral work adorn the space.

When the reality of the situation begins to unfold, the world becomes more cluttered - pages are torn off the wall, used as props, and are thrown about the space.

Projections are used to replicate a kind of "shadow play" that could have been used in the late 1800s. Silhouettes of the real historic figures not only help audiences associate actors as they switch from character to character, but remind us that this is our real history. Each page of wallpaper was meticulously placed to create a translucent surface for rear projection.