Thursday, Aug 28, 2025 at 9:00pm
13th Dream Up Festival
The inaugural Dream Up Festival offered 25 shows consisting of 23 World Premieres and 2 American Premieres.
Green Herrings in a Yellow Room: A Counter Production of The Yellow Wallpaper - World Premiere
Written, directed, and designed by Sloan Aulgur
"Green Herrings in a Yellow Room" is a theatrical table reading about a play-in-progress. It is a counter-production of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, the short story published in 1892, which follows an unnamed woman prescribed a "rest cure" by her husband, John. Confined to a room wrapped in gothic yellow wallpaper, the narrator becomes obsessed with its patterns. As her mind deteriorates, she sees a woman trapped behind the paper. This production reimagines Charlotte's bedroom as not yellow, but green-a rich, vibrant green laced with the medium responsible for its provocative coloration: arsenic. Developed through a method of "unfabulation," this performance un-writes the feminist text to reveal the toxic material histories behind 19th-century arsenic wallpaper. Set around a central table of archival props and models, audience members find themselves cast into an unfolding production-an investigative live performance about the production of another story. Guided by the Director, participants read from verbatim historical texts, engaging in a layered, live dramaturgy that blends theater with design theory. "Green Herrings in a Yellow Room" undoes Charlotte's literary misdirections and the public discourse surrounding the color in question.
Cost: $20
Location:Community Theater
Running time: Green Herrings in a Yellow Room: A Counter Production of The Yellow Wallpaper is 30 Minutes + performance discussion $20.
