Salome

COC's production of Salome features extensive projection work, including that of the disembodied mouth of Jochannan, real-time and rear projected on the back wall of the set./

Kay Armatage writes in the essay Seeing an Hearing Atom Egoyan's Salome, "the video camera, held in such close proximity to the mouth, replaces the microphone, amplifying the visual rather than the aural - indeed, dissolving the aural into the visual." "The enormity of the image...is a visual reminder of our presence as an audience, for whose pleasure (and horror?) these crimes are committed." "this visual image is privileged for the audience alone." (Kay 315).

This production also used a giant cotton screen raised up with an actress as another screen, projected onto from the front (for larger images) and back (for smaller projections).

Selected scenes from Salome:

From the COC Youtube Channel

Link to Inside Opera: Salome, Playing with Shadows. This video shows shadow designer and artist Clea Minaker as she talks of her challenges in designing the shadow art for the show.

Technical plans to COC's Salome

Citation: Burwell, Jennifer Lise, and Monique Tschofen. Image and Territory., 2007. Print.