TAMMY FAYE’S FINAL AUDITION, Scenic and Costume Design

By: Merri  Biechler

Tantrum Theater, Dublin, Ohio

Directed by Dennis Lee Delaney

Lighting Design : Daniel Winters

Sound Design: Dennis Lee Delaney 

The premiere  play by Merri Biechler depicts Tammy Faye Bakker’s final hours, flowing between life and death. Shifting between reality, memory, and revelation, Tammy glides in and out of television studios, her bedroom, and the internal spaces of her thoughts and dreams. I designed a space that was an abstracted television studio that in part doubles as a domestic interior. We used live feed video to further engage the audience and bring them into the  world of early televangelism . The fanciful cloud treatment of the stage floor and the pearlescent scenic details further immersed the audience in Tammy’s heavenly fever dream.