Urinetown The Musical
Urinetown The Musical was a Doppio production, performed in NatLAB. It was something very new and exciting to create as I had not done something of this scale or budget. Nor had I ever had the position to direct and manage people to create a project.
It was a wonderful project to work on and experiment more with “letting go” of trying to make things look perfect or clean, I wanted to make it out of cardboard for financial purposes, but also because it really fit the style of the play itself. Another advantage of the cardboard was that it gave me the opportunity to experiment a lot with such a scale, where mistakes were not that big of a problem.
I have absolutely loved working on this, and might be the one I’m most proud of. I would love to do more set or stage design later.
The fun thing about the decor was, that the director very quickly said “I want to use scaffolding for elevation, and we got some big wooden cubes I want to use.” That was essentially the only restriction I got.
I took my inspiration from the London sewer system, but combine it with a sort of “cartoon-style.” One big inspiration was the art style of “Bendy and the Ink Machine.”
We were with a group of 15 people, which was quite fortunate as we would need to cut and paint a few hundred cardboard bricks and create the walls to eventually put on the scaffolding. It was my first experience with properly directing people to get everything done, but I think it went quite well!
We only had a few hours to build everything up, which was quite the challenge. But many hands make quick work, and we got the entire thing standing in the afternoon!
Not only did I design and direct the decor, I also created vector art for the posters of the players to be used for the promotion of the play. These posters were also used in the play itself on specific points. For example; we hung the “Bad guy posters” in the hallway when you entered, and during the break, we graffitied these posters and/or hung the “Resistance” posters over them.
Finished in Jul 2025
