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The Winter's Tale
costume design and make
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One of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, and dubbed the original soap opera, The Winter’s Tale, smashes all the rules that we have come to expect from a traditional drama. Unity of time, place and action are hurled aside as we range across the world, from court to country, from high tragedy to low comedy, across a time span of sixteen years.
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"With a plethora of characters (most cast play a couple of roles), each is helpfully labelled by name, and designer Aislinn Naughton puts them in a mix of costumes that are economically right. Leontes has a buttoned-up militaristic look, as do his functionaries; Polixenes (Anton Berezin) is the charming squatter in tweed and Akubra; the Shepherd (Tref Gare, also trombonist in the four-piece band) and his daughter Clown (Emma Austin, also saxophonist) are credulous yokels in Yakka overalls, Paulina (a feisty Elizabeth Slattery) is in no nonsense trousers, a trio of crooning singers (Jessica Barton, Adam Canny and May Jasper) are in 1930s black and white, and so on. " - Michael Brindley, Stage Whispers
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"(for all the changes in time and place across the play, the costumes (...) were well done and consistent throughout." - David Collins, Arts Review
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Directed by Jennifer Sarah Dean
Music Direction by Natalie Calia
Choreography by John Reed
Set design by Hayley James
Costume design by Aislinn Naughton
Photography by Jack Dixon Gunn
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