A INN DOO - February House

DESIGN POV

February House is, paradoxically, the most intense love story of profoundly lonely individuals. Carson, who once found her home in the Coney Island circus, returns to her hometown in Georgia. Wystan loves Chester so much only to makes him suffocating in his utopia. George, who gathered beautiful and talented people in this house, only to eventually watch them all leave. Artists in this house may be enjoying drink in the sun but are still haunted by fear and guilt.

The set design for this production aims to fully embrace these, ironies. The space is filled with collected items and pretty furniture, yet at the same time, it is cluttered and chaotic. The items in this house may be functional but they certainly will haunt us into their memories. This house serves as a bedroom, kitchen, and living room, but it also represents the skyline of New York City from Brooklyn. And in the dead of night, it will transform into a distant battlefield somewhere across the ocean. The furniture will protect characters but may also trap them in this house. In this strange world of dualities, I aim to reflect the fragile tension between the longing for connection and the inevitability of isolation, comfortable home and inescapable reality of war.

Northwestern Wirtz Center Barber Theatre