Introduction

1 The Design Process

• Strands in Contemporary Costume Design
• Communicating to the Audience
• The Design Process in Practice
• Working in the Theatre – Drawings & Research – Getting it Down on Paper
• Working in Film – Getting Your Team Ready – Making Costumes – Fittings
• What to do on a low budget

2 The Director's View

• Interviews with Trevor Nunn, Nicholas Hytner, Katie Mitchell, Sally Potter, Roland Rees & Ian Judge

3 Production Diaries

Theatre	A Christmas Carol	Royal Shakespeare Company 1994
Opera	Marriage of Figaro	Scottish Opera 1995
	Simon Boccanegra	Royal Opera House 1997
Film	Tom's Midnight Garden	1997

4 Not the Designer

• A look at alternative employment in Costume

5 What They Don’t Say at College

• Getting the Break
• Drawing
• Money
• Agents
• Postmodernism
• the Sense of History
• Working, Husbands & Children

6 Brief History of Theatrical Costume (with Melanie Schuessler)

7 Theatre Design Training

• UK
• US