Romero

Description

When I first read Xiomara Cornejo's Romero, I knew the scenic design had to hold more than history; it had to hold ghosts. Set in the final hours of Archbishop Oscar Romero's life, the play bends time and invites the dead to speak. It is not realism. It is ritual.

The world emerged from the tension between sacredness and rupture. A cruciform arch stood at the center, part cathedral and part memory portal, while a fractured platform and textured black floor anchored the action in both earth and spirit.