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Fernandez, C, [January 2 2020] ’38 Looks Kate Middleton has Worn since Becoming a Royal’ Available at: < https://www.insider.com/kate-middleton-best-outfits-through-the-years-2019-12> [first accessed 25th August 2020]. Use the guide below to write a review for the Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth. Music was used to complement the plays – a number of them include songs. There are famous songs in Much Ado About Nothing – ' Sigh no more, ladies ' – and Twelfth Night has a song in every act performed by Feste, the fool. Musicians could sit on the balconies behind the stage to perform, or under the stage to create an eerie effect. We have many items in our Props and Objects Collection that don’t easily fit inside a box to store, such as the miniature golden carriage is from The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich (The Beau Defeated), 2017. It’s very impressive that it was your first job as a head costume designer. Did you ever feel nervous about embarking on such a bold and radical take on a story that’s so beloved?

The Apprentice Costume Accessories Makerrole will be based in both the Millinery & Jewellery and Costume Props & Footwear teams. You will learn how to construct and adapt costume accessories including hats, armour, shoe decoration and jewellery. This will also lead to a Level 3 Garment Maker apprenticeship standard. Throughout renowned playwright William Shakespeare’s 38 plays clothing is an integral part of the text [1]. Over the past 400 years various performances of Shakespeare’s work globally have led to various interpretations of his texts and how they are presented to the audience. For example, I have seen an all-female Globe production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ which was set during the Elizabethan era, the late Ninagawa’s epic production of ‘Macbeth’ adorned in the native dress of Japan and a production of ‘Richard II’ which used everyday items such as a ketchup bottle and sponge to symbolise characters in a narrativised version of the play. In each of these examples costume becomes a “visualisation of someone other than the actor [or everyday appliance] who wears it, and the clothing is chosen or designed for this particular theatrical moment” [2]. Our Props and Objects Collection is the most varied in our whole museum collection. It includes props from RSC productions, as well as staging equipment like lighting rigs, large scenic panels and stage weights. We even have prop paintings, one of which is clearly a copy of Gustav Klimt’s Judith II( Salome) created by our talented Scenic Workshop team.Explore our archive and library through the Discover Shakespeare online catalogueor by visiting the Reading Roomservice at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon. Try to show how the characters behaved in the context of the plot, scene, or with other characters. There are different kinds of characters in the play; soldiers and generals, thanes and kings, ladies and witches, (and a goddess). We would like you to use costume to help to show the differences between these characters. Think about what materials, symbols or accessories you can use to help show the character’s status and personality. One of our most recognisable paintings is The Weird Sisters: Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3 by Henry Fuseli, 1783. A painting which explores the supernatural world in which Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is set. It shows an opening scene, where three witches, or weird sisters, foretell the character Macbeth’s future as king.

The audience for this production will mainly be schools and young people from across London and Birmingham, so the mood boards must connect to them. The play was written several hundred years ago, but you can choose any setting you think will engage your audience. Our production is contemporary, but you can take inspiration from any time period or anywhere you choose. You can choose how you would prefer to design and present your poster, either by hand or on a computer.

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At the end of the play in Shakespeare’s time, the company would put on a second shorter piece – a farce or a dance. This stopped the audience going home sad if it was a tragedy! Costume, as a theatrical element within performance, is usually forgotten about when analysing theatrical performances. This misunderstanding is extremely relevant within the productions of Shakespeare’s plays, as Jean MacIntyre points out, that when attention is paid to the imagery of clothing in his work it rarely considers the actor’s costume on stage [3]. Unlike other elements which make up the world of a performance, costume is the only one intrinsically linked with an actor’s body. The choice of costume is not only shaped by the directors’ decisions and the space in which the event is happening in, it is also shaped by the actors’ analysis of the play. It is then through the analysis of the costume that we can better understand the intentions of the play [4]. There is a reconstruction of the Globe built not far from its original location in Southwark, London.

Peggy Ashcroft was an actor who worked extensively with the RSC throughout her career and one of our paintings, by Ethel Leonine Gabain, depicts her as the infamous character, Juliet. It shows her in an orange velvet dress she wore in 1935, one of many dresses we have that she has worn that we also have in our Costume Collection. The exception would have been the Roman plays, including Julius Caesar. Togas were easy to construct, and it is likely that the Roman plays had a mixture of togas and Elizabethan dress. Actors were exempt – while on stage – from the laws about what clothes each class could and should wear. This meant that their costumes could tell the audience a lot about the character instantly, including their age, social class, what they did for a living and where they were from.We have 13 individual portraits of Shakespeare alone in our artwork collection. Our most famous Shakespeare portrait is the "Flower Portrait", named after Mrs Charles Flower, who donated it to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. It was claimed by to be the original portrait from which the engraving by Droeshout in the front of the First Folio was produced. The creation of costume in this production of Macbeth has used symbolism. Symbolist costumes are more interested in communicating an idea to the audience than in representing real life. Symbolism allows the designer to create costumes that they think represents the key themes of the play or key ideas about the characters.