This play was one of my favorites ever to design! This was an amazing cast that put on a hilarious show. June in Georgia is hot, hot, hot, so I did my best to make the costumes lightweight but still in Renaissance “style”.
Photos below by Christina Cannon of the Red and Black:
twelfth night costumes Maria, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew
photo by C. Cannon, Maria and Sir Andrew
Costume photos below taken by me:
Orsino and Olivia, twelfth Night 2014
Sir Andrew, Twelfth Night
Twin Costume on Sebastian, Twelfth Night 2014
Three of the handmaidens, Twelfth Night 2014
Feste and Malvolio, Twelfth Night 2014
Always a fun production!! Rose of Athens revisited Winnie the Pooh for the holidays in 2013 with their performance of “A Holiday Tail”. Some of the previous costumes were still around, with some minor repairs and alterations needed, but I still had to make Tigger, Rabbit, and a few missing heads 🙂 Since I had patterned out the costumes before, and had an intern for this show, it was pretty easy. The family and I even helped make a few of the 700 snowflakes that adorned the set!
That’s me and my littlest on the front row, right. The girls were more than willing to attend dress rehearsals and fittings with me for this show 🙂 Here is a mini piglet version I made for my now 9 year old back when I did Pooh the first time around…
This play was so much fun to design, especially with my own “outsoken” 8 year old to offer input.
With double casting for the kids, there we a lot of outfits to put together, but it came together great and the cast was amazingly nice, smart and hilarious. Just a couple of shots here:
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I did the minimal costumes for this extraordinary show a few years ago.
It was a regency dress and suit, my first of this style.
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Well, I agreed to sign on for this show knowing it was right around my due date. Luckily, I got the bulk of everything done before the baby, and superstar costumer Jennie tied up the loose ends and carried the wardrobe through the week of shows. I really enjoyed getting to know the characters and designing period 30’s pieces for them and took Amanda’s dinner dress back to a tea dress of the late 1910’s/20’s which she would have stashed away from her “entertaining” days… I tried to re-style clothing as much as possible with only the pink Laura dinner dress having to be made from scratch, from my imagination, actually, as I could not find a pattern of what I was envisioning.
Laura dinner dress
This production was done in 2008 at the Georgia center in Athens. My first costuming gig with Rose of Athens. Shrew was set in the early 1950’s. The director wanted the look of the transition from the late 40’s …before the teen trend of the poodle skirt look.
My inspiration came from a Marlon Brando shot from the Wild One.
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Straiter skirts, cheery colors for Bianca, drab darks for Kate. Petruchio and Grumio wore the chucks, jeans and leather jacket/vest. Sweater vests, ascot ties, hats, and suspenders for the other characters. The wedding dress for Kate was made from scratch…a really pretty suit with 3/4 sleeves and a headband veil. The most fun of this production was piecing together crazy outfits for Petruchio and Grumio’s wedding gear. The idea was multicultural, so there were kimonos, indian pants, a kilt, an animal covered hat, a chinese worker shirt, mismatched shoes and socks, a cowboy boot, um….was that it?
This was a great and HUGE performance by Rose of Athens. It was their first at the classic Morton Theater in downtown Athens, and for a cast of 12 or so…there were over 60 costumes! The theme was classic Shakespearean dress with a sci-fi futuristic twist. My collegue, Jennie Alvernez was the lead costumer, but with such an overload of designs and limited budget, I signed on to help out. My main project was the witches. 7 total, but each one had to have at least 2 growing variations of red accents (as the play progressed, the characters fell deeper into evil madness). The play turned out amazingly and I have to say the witches were my favorite part. Choreography by Becca Woolbright and live percussion/spooky sounds by Patrick Ferguson made their dances eerily cool. The hitch to the witches costumes was making long dresses that could be crouched, jumped, and crawled in….did I mention the ROA actors are a very active crew? I did not get my own photos of the gowns in their finality, but here they are in action.
The close ups and more shots of the whole show are found here:
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What I basically did was some repurposing of thrift store dresses!
Each of the 7 witches had to wear black tee shirt and leggings under their costumes for quick changes into soldier or other costumes (by quick, I mean less than a minute!). I started with some plain black velvet long sleeve dresses, a few black hippie skirts and plain black skirts. Each one got a bit of the sci fi aspect and the red accents with nifty additions like reversable red to redder leather corsets, sheer gauzy elastic red underskirts, or belts and little red accents. I made most of these dance-able by slitting the sides to the upper thigh, or by slitting the whole skirt all around in some cases. The belts and corsets all closed with heavy duty industrial velcro which made for easy on/off. They all incorporated lots of black tulle and the main witch, Hecate featured Purple to signify her lead role.
I did not originally make these costumes, but I will be recreating them for future performances. These were on loan from the Springer Opera House for Rose of Athens’s Summer performance of Winnie the Pooh. All I had to do was custom tailor them for each character and find a suitable outfit for Richie, who played Christopher Robin. After every performance, the heavier costumes like Kanga and Roo needed mending, so when I recreate these, they will be as light as possible!
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