Gross Indecency

Scenic & Projection Design

October 2024
Baldwin Wallace University

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 manifesto. As he romanticizes the courtroom and his memories, pages of literature and love letters painted with Aesthetic floral work adorn the space. When the reality of the situation begins to unfold, the world becomes more cluttered - pages scatter, rip, and fall.