2015

A blending of architecture and jungle, the set illustrated a battleground between the rigid traditional structure of Violet Venable's world and the savage prehistoric garden world of her son Sebastian.

As the settings' formal elements gave way to the ever encroaching violent greenery contained within the garden walls, the story of Sebastian's life and death unfurled like one of his ancient tree ferns. 

Splashes of red and swelling bulbous insectivorous plants punctuate the garden like organs ripped from a body, still glistening, and a broken statuary of St. Sebastian punctured by arrows rests in one of the garden beds, reminding us of Sebastian's fanatical obsession with seeing the savage face of God in Nature. 

While Sebastian himself was never personally present throughout the play, his primordial garden overshadowed all of the characters just as he himself had in life.