Stage and Costume Design for a Theater Play

TITLE “What did you do when Lady Di died?” written and directed by Katharina Kummer
VENUE Theater Werk X am Petersplatz Stage and costume design
YEAR 2023

“The stage design is quite strikingly dark and visually interesting, with its combination of a muted flower landscape and strewn car parts. The use of this design may be intended to reference the car crash that killed Princess Diana, as well as the darker aspects of her life and legacy. The fact that the stage designer, Alma Bektas, is also a floral designer and works across different artistic mediums suggests that she intended the design to be a symbolic aspect of the play. By lending together the natural and artificial, Bektas may be alluding to the complex and multifaceted aspects of the play.”

Vienna Cultgram, Karin Svadlenak-Gomez

Photos by Alexander Gotter