The Wild Duck-Henrik Ibsen
Conceptual Design Project
China National Theatre, 2023



The Wild Duck intricately weaves a narrative that delves into the delicate balance between truth and deception within Hialmar’s family. It explores the fragile balance between truth and illusion within Hialmar’s family. The garret becomes a symbolic space where light, shadow, and fragmented perspectives reflect the characters’ conflicted understanding of reality.

Geometric distortions, tilted structures, and antiperspective techniques create a sense of imbalance within an otherwise unified form, mirroring the instability beneath the family’s seemingly harmonious life. Transparent openings and shifting light emphasize themes of blindness, revelation, and the tension between comfort and truth.

The design ultimately visualizes the delicate emotional structures people build and how easily they collapse when confronted with reality.




Photo Gallery
The Dark Room
The Garret
Garret with lighting effect
Gerger’s room
Hialmar’s living room & photography studio
Relling’s living room
Lighting experiment

In my interpretation, the story unfolds within different spaces of one house, each reflecting a distinct state of mind. Gregers’s room embodies rational realism. Hialmar’s studio represents daily life, balancing work and illusion, and the garret symbolizes his idealistic fantasy. Relling’s space, in contrast, provides a grounded equilibrium.
Lighting plays a key role in expressing these contrasts. The bright photography studio light and the red-lit darkroom suggests their manipulation of reality, and the dim living light reflects their blurred perception of truth. In the garret, fragmented light from a broken clock creates a dreamlike atmosphere, symbolizing illusion and uncertainty.
Through tilted geometry, sharp angles, and antiperspective, I visually translated these psychological and thematic imbalances into spatial form.





Character Board & Costume Design








Story Board














                                                                         
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