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Video Podcast: Ubu Roi Design Storm

As the first show of the Fall semester, Ubu Roi’s entire design was the result of a storm. Borrowing the idea from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Ubu’s “Design Storm” featured an intense and condensed four-day creative process that resulted in all the sets, costumes and music that audiences will see on stage.

“We worked on the show for ten days then did a run-through of it with the designer,” show director Betsy Tucker said. “The next night we got together for four hours to talk about the show. Then over the next two days we built the whole thing – a process that usually takes six weeks. The ‘storm’ was an experiment to see if it could be done and to determine whether it isa workable model for future productions. It went very well, and we had a good time. They rose to the wackiness of the production.”

View the Video Podcast of the design storm weekend here.

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