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The Costume Designer's World

Introduction
The Design Process
The Director's View
Production Diaries
Not the Designer
What They Don’t Say at College
Brief History of Theatrical Costume
Theatre Design Training (UK)
Theatre Design Training (USA)
      

THE COSTUME DESIGNER’S WORLD
Deirdre Clancy
with Maxwell Steer

Plus information about North America by Melanie Schuessler

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

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

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