ITS SHOW TIME

The performances for The Canterbury tales have been happening over the past few days to a well earn success. Today I got the opportunity to help as part of the crew and dress the actors/actresses. Before this though came heavy duty ironing and cleaning. I must admit that the long coat for the Man of Law was a challenge due to the length of it. I ended up having to get a spare table to hold half the weight of the coat whilst I ironed the other half and vice versa. The actors had a mixture of nerves and excitement due to the fact it was there last show. Once everyone was put through make up the dressing began. On the whole everyone was pretty self sufficient and due to tech rehearsals and dress parade knew how to dress themselves. Katie, Lucy and I only had to do the lacing up of dresses and some tweaking on a few just to get garments to lay right. The team ethic was there right from the start, everyone worked together to get the actors on set as quickly as possible and ready for warm up

The show was truly an amazing performance and well worth the time and effort everyone put in. It was beautiful how the costumes were finally realised in an actual space and fitted in with the time period perfectly.

The Wife of Bath actress, Diana played the part to great success, big, bolshie and most importantly acted the worldly woman. The padding on the actress worked well and her bust on stage was extremely impressive. It fitted well with the character and the tunic draped nicely over it to emphasise the curves.

I was extremely happy about seeing something the group had worked so hard on come to life. It really made the performance special for all of us.

This has made me realise I would like to work on female wear for my final major project. Working with Diana has really opened my eyes to what I can create with a little imagination and a very good designer.

Warm Up