Aladdin designs

I was lucky enough to be asked by Marina Caldarone and Julian Woolford to design their production of Aladdin at The Queens Theatre , Hornchurch.

I loved working on this production. We really tried to push the boundaries with the genre of Pantomine. 

Our Aladdin was played by a male actor, rather than the usual female.

This costume design is for Widow Twankey's first appearance. I tried to reflect current fashions, but , obviously exaggerate the design features with garish colours, "pagoda" shoulder detail and a large embroidered feature on the back panel.

The dame who played this part, asked that we kept the designs quite feminine with high heels and huge wigs, but with no false breasts!

I broke several cardinal rules of costume design -you will notice that I did not "colour in" my design, but used the colour of the paper to suggest where myself and the supervisor might"go" with the fabric choices. We had limited time to chose fabrics and we needed to be able to respond to whatever was available in the fabric shops. You can see some swatches in the top left hand corner.