Lourdes of the Flies
The Palladium Theatre St. Petersburg, FL
Lighting design for the 2011 production of Lourdes of the Flies at The Palladium Theatre, directed by William Leavengood.
- Director
- William Leavengood
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
About the Show
A rollicking farce about an eclectic group of prep school girls who accidentally sink their cruise ship and must build a new society on a volcanic island. Hanna, the acid-tongued homecoming queen, splinters off with her tribe of popular girls, while Lourdes, an overmedicated misfit, is left behind with the other "outcast-a-ways" and gradually transforms into a capable leader. The play borrows its title and skeleton from William Golding's Lord of the Flies, but its humor owes more to Gilligan's Island and the plays of Charles Busch.
Source: Tampa Bay Times
Press
Leavengood's script is clever and amusing from start to finish, with tons of chuckles… The way he integrates a few pointed sociological observations into such abject silliness is impressive.