Thinking Through Costume

ISBN-13: 9781350110809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

UK) Aoife Monks (Queen Mary University of London; University of the Ar Adrian Kear (Wimbledon College of Arts; UK) Heike Roms (University of Exeter

Opis

Costume is the glue that brings workers at the theatre together. To think deeply about working with and making costume at the theatre is to trace a map of social relations – between designer and maker, maker and actor, actor and dresser, dyer and tailor, tailor and designer. This book offers a detailed account of how costume is made, worn, used and designed backstage at the National Theatre, London, and in doing so, suggests that performance can be newly understood once we take account of the people who make it. Drawing on interviews with a wide range of `costume workers’ – tailors, dyers, buyers, managers, dressers, actors, designers, stage-managers, critics – this book argues that thinking about how costume is made and worn can offer us new paradigms for thinking about the theatre event more generally.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Introduction: National Dress Chapter One: Missing Costume Chapter Two: Collaboration Chapter Three: Experimentation and Technique Chapter Four: Ethos Chapter Five: Order and the Institution Chapter Six: Culture and Memory Epilogue: Laughter Notes Bibliography Index