Fragment of the frontcloth I designed for Cinderella

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This image is of half of the frontcloth I designed for Cinderella.....inspired by the french court, with the fleur de lys.

This is just half of the design.

The set for Tess of the D'Urbervilles I discussed earlier

Here is the set I discussed earlier in my blog.

Tess is descending the stairs in a dark red silk dressing gown. Angel is waiting for her.....

Cinderella

This photograph shows my design for the Ugly sisters finale costume for Cinderella.
I wish it was in colour....the idea was to have the pair come on , revolve together centre stage, looking like a fountain form a grand french palace and then separate, revealing the inside of the pond, complete with fish and plants.
The costumes were made from turquoise and gold lame. The dames wore blue hard wigs with a gold cupid perched on top......not at all camp!

Daisy pulls it off

This picture shows the two leading characters, Daisy (in the background) and Trixie.
The gym "horse" was also a multi functional prop, becoming a bed, a desk and of course part of the clifftop!
The set was very minimalist, but the costumes were designed to be very accurate representations of school uniform in the pre-war period.
The school blouses were made with extra large soft collars to replicate those I had seen in photographs from the 1930's.
The pinafore dresses were made from navy fine wool and carefully pleated and held with a yellow woven "garter which represented school sports colours.

Daisy pulls it off!

Daisy pulls it off! by Denise Deegan is a "jolly hockey sticks" sort of a play within a play.
Based on the schoolgirl stories of Angela Brazil and Enid Blyton's Malory Towers stories, this paly saw the cast of schoolgirls performing their play in the school gym. Each actor played at least two parts and the gym climbing frames pulled out to represent doors, walls, windows and even a clifftop........all spiffing japes gels!