Love Unpunished to be Featured in the Prague Quadrennial

We couldn't be more pleased to send along the news that Mimi Lien's gargantuan evacuation staircase installation for Pig Iron's Love Unpunished has been selected to be featured in the US platform at the Prague Quadrennial.  The Quadrennial is the principal international exhibition of scenic design, and inclusion is a major honor; we're so proud of Mimi, and are patting ourselves on the back a little for working with such cool designers.

For those of you who missed Love Unpunished in 2006, a little about the show: co-led by Pig Iron co-founder Dan Rothenberg and David Brick, the Co-Artistic Director of Headlong Dance Theater, Love Unpunished was a meditative dance-theatre investigation of mourning and mortality, set on the evacuation staircase of the World Trade Center on September 11.  Mimi's design was the largest set build that we'd undertaken up to that point, highlighted by a spare, monumental two-story staircase installed into our performance space in the old Cinemagic movie theatre in University City.

Mimi has gone on to become an Associate Artist with Pig Iron, and designed the mammoth 120-foot wide set for last September's Welcome to Yuba City and is working with us again on our upcoming Cankerblossom.  In Philadelphia, she's also worked extensively with the Wilma Theater, where she won a Barrymore for her work on Outrage in 2006.

This is the second consecutive time a Pig Iron set design has been featured in the Prague Quadrennial; the site-specific performance bazaar that Anna Kiraly created for 2005's Pay Up was spotlighted in 2007.