The theatre show "The Thirteenth Apostle or Cloud in pant" was presented in year 2019 in the LRDT theater, Vilnius. The work at visual concept was started in 2018. The show was based on the three Mayakovsky's poems - "Сloud in pants", "Flute spine" and "Vladimir Mayakovsky".
collage by Jonas Arcikauskas
Concepts and first sketches
wINDOWS concept
The most important part of this concept is an illusion to the anthill. Before you can get the point of the inside life of this structure, it's becoming flooded.
These many small windows look like the prison windows or metal honeycombs with their stench and unhappy people's life in there. Actualy, it looks like some basement undergraund city.
Eventually, all of this is being swallowed up by it's own sewage.
City concept
First of all, this city illustrates the social structure. From the poor classes including wooden houses and hills of garbage, to the rich classes including huge skyscrapers and urban areas. The bridge you can see gives you the opportunity to be currently presented in the city and feel all the actions.
After some time, the city that was presented like bright and futuristic with high saturation colors is becoming very dark in the night. Just a few lights in the houses and all the rays of the amusement park are shining. Suddenly, something gets wrong and the city is starting to burn. After the fire the city is becoming broken and smoldering, the colors appear to be gray and dull.
FINAL concept
Just some part of the city is shown to let the viewer to get the main idea of this project. It includes the symbols of main idea about social life - industrial waste, poverty, faith in God and entertainment.
