Costume: Readings in Theatre Practice

ISBN-13: 9781137029492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 184 str.

Alison Maclaurin; Aoife Monks

Opis

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Exploring costume's role and function in a variety of theoretical, historical, conceptual and practical contexts, this exciting volume also reflects on the broader relationship between costume and visual culture throughout.

Recenzje

“I am delighted to have this book as part of our literature, and highly recommend it to students of costume design in theatre, television or film, theatre studies, performance studies, fashion and textiles, art and architecture, gender studies and cultural studies. It is an invaluable resource that offers an entryway through which designers, directors, performance theorists and historians may tread towards a more comprehensive history and theory of costume, with its infinite manifestations and functions.” (Linda Matheson, Studies in Costume & Performance, Vol. 1 (1), 2016)

Spis treści

Introduction – Aoife Monks.- 1. Writing About Costume; Ali Maclaurin.- Interview one: Jenny Tirimani.- Interview two: Mark Thompson.- 2. The Stage Picture; Ali Maclaurin.- Interview three: Simon Annand.- Interview four: Alex Rigg.- 3. Virtuosity, Craft and Technique in the Work of Costume; Aoife Monks.- Interview five: Lois Weaver.- Interview six: Lez Brotherstone.- 4. Playing the Body: Costume, Stereotypes and Modernity in Performance; Aoife Monks.- Interview seven: Tina Bicat.- Interview eight: The salon project.- 5. Artists and the 'scenic body'; Ali Maclaurin.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

Ali Maclaurin is a freelance designer and lecturer. She has practiced for over twenty years, particularly in physical theatre and young people's work, with companies such as Scottish Opera and Shadow Syndicate.

Aoife Monks is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Actor in Costume.