Waiting for the kick

What if it was time to fix a story that had been told wrong for two thousand years?

The debut feature film from writer/director/composer Ilima Considine is a gay, feminist reimagining of Oscar Wilde's Salome as a gay, feminist rock opera- reset in an after hours club where obsession and generational trauma reach a perfect storm. Off-duty bartenders, strippers, and other night folk collide in a fever dream mashup of dark comedy, psychological horror, sexual fluidity, mountains of cocaine, and twerk-inducing beats from The Sexbots.  Fatalism, eye candy, sonic beauty and the irrepressible nature of young love, growing like dandelions in a sidewalk - give this ancient tale new wrappings while remaining faithful to Oscar Wilde's long banned one-act play, Salome. While Oscar Wilde's version shudders at female sexuality, this version revels in the sexual and gender fluidity of its young cast.

Waiting for the Kick is  the Oregon Fringe Festival's 2024 honorarium for "creative work that is boundary-breaking, unconventional, excites discussion, and explores different perspectives of a held position, principle, and/or belief".

Waiting for the Kick's sold out World Premiere at The Mission Theater in Portland, OR was followed by streaming on Amazon Prime Video.  The Director's Cut will be released November 2025.

Waiting for the Kick was workshopped by Magic Circle Opera in 2023.

Our majority non-binary, majority sex worker cast includes reality television stars, Portlandia season regulars, local indie musicians, viral YouTube stars, and drag kings. 

February 22, 2024 on No Dudes Radio Hour listen here.

February 27, 2024 on XRAY FM listen here.

March 7, 2024 on KBOO.FM listen here.

March 12, 2024 on The Recyclables podcast listen here.