The Costume Supervisor's Toolkit: Supervising Theatre Costume Production from First Meeting to Final Performance

ISBN-13: 9781138182608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Rebecca Pride

Opis

The Costume Supervisor’s Toolkit explores the responsibilities of a Costume Supervisor within a theatrical, opera or dance production company. This guide outlines best working practices such as building a team and creating a costume bible, and provides resources such as sizing guides and case studies from renowned theatrical organizations.

Recenzje

Pride’s research and development of the book is not only exceptionally thorough, but accurate and relevant to the role of costume supervisor. As a practical guide, the book takes a detailed, logical approach to exploring and clarifying the role of the costume supervisor in the theatrical costume production process. By using a methodology based on comprehensive interviews with working practitioners, Pride has ensured that the information presented is based on the experiences of working practitioners at the top of their profession.

-Corinne Heskett, Studies in Costume & Performance, Volume 5 Number 2, 2020

O autorze

Rebecca Pride is Course Leader for the award-winning BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design course at the Arts University Bournemouth. She spent 15 years prior to her career as an academic, working as a costume and set designer in the professional theatre. Her work at the Arts University has included producing numerous costume-led film projects, including Wimbledon Championships 1936-1937, Storytelling from an original point of view, Glass slippers, La Passarella, Reverie, Vampyr and Moulin Rouge.