A film based on a theatre event inspired by the rituals of the 19th century salon.

Stewart Laing, Scotland’s celebrated theatre director and designer, created a fully immersive experience for audience members, dressed in opulent Victorian costumes, in a mirrored 19th century reception room at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.

The Salon Project offers audiences the opportunity to explore the past while imagining the future, to mirror the contrasts and paradoxes between the golden age of salon society and our own era of economic excess.