The Waste Land
Oakland Theatre Project / Oakland
A drive-in play staged during the pandemic. Audiences watched from the safety of their cars in the theatre’s parking lot with bluetooth audio piped in to their car stereos. Video Projection designed by Erin Gilley. Written by T. S. Eliot. Adapted for the stage by John Wilkins. Directed by Michael Socrates Moran. Starring Lisa Ramirez. Photos by Carson French.
What’s most impressive about this “Waste Land” is how strongly its feverish, dizzyingly erudite cry of despair echoes these unsettling times.
- Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News
The Waste Land 100 Years
A 3 minute movie that played as video projection during Oakland Theatre Project’s production of The Waste Land. It was projected behind an actress playing Eliot who starts out walking slowly and gradually breaks into a sprint as the movie moves into the modern era and overwhelms her.
