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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