The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill was produced by Penelope’s Web Theater at the Hennepin Center for the Arts, directed by Jōn Katherine Martin. The play takes place in 1912 in a run-down bar in Greenwich Village. All the characters in the play have a pipe-dream of what they want to be or who they used to be. Yet they never fulfill their dreams and instead listlessly hang out in the bar waiting for Hickey to arrive, who they hope will restart the party and enliven their lives.

I photographed several of the characters both as the character they are and as their hoped-for pipe dream and merged the two images. I sepia toned the images and then hand-colored them to create a feeling of the era and the sad ethos of the play.

These images hung in the lobby and served as a visual prelude to the play.