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Hamlet

The first show I ever costume designed - Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The stats:
Directed by Matt Lundeen
Presented by Arlington Children's Theater
Cost: less than $20 from a budget of $432 (That weirdly specific budget was calculated as 18$ per actor, taken out of their participation fee.)
Scope of Work: Design costumes for 24 actors and assemble these from stock and actors' own clothes over a period of 6 weeks
Director's Concept: Set in the Soviet Block, with drab colors
My Concept: Military inspired clothing in shades of tan, gray, and olive
How I feel about it now: I'm still proud of this show. Although some aspects of the design were a little heavy-handed, the collective whole created a cohesive world. One of the actor's mother had grown up in Soviet eastern Europe, and I learned later that she said this shows imagery took her back to the world of her childhood. That was the greatest compliment I got in the whole run.
Hamlet and Laertes
The Royal Court
Bit Parts
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