props and costume

 

This is how my character Miranda is usually portrayed when it comes to costume and this that this is quite accurate as she has lived her whole life on an island with no access to new styles. I have thought a lot about my costume and as the class have decided to set this play in a gangsta era how to plan my outfit accordingly. I don't want my costume to be so different that it doesn't fit with the other characters and looks out of place but I don't thin it should follow the gangsta theme as she wouldn't have been exposed to this style as a child. I am planning to wear a simple dress which isn't flashy or showy and doesn't have modern elements to it, I am also going to have bear feet as the character is a very free young woman who is comfortable living a natural life as she has grown up in nature living on an islands with her father.

This is exactly how I see Miranda to look as she looks very natural and young. Her dress is rough and ragged as it would be if you lived in the same clothes nearly every day. I will make my hair look messy and tousled as my character would not have access to modern hair equipment or accessories. I will also wear extremely minimum makeup just so I don't look pale on stage as she would have a sun kissed complexion I she's outside most days.

 

This is the attire that I would expect Maria the maid to wear in the original play as it is simple and dull and your typical maid costume really. As we are setting out Twelfth Night in a school to modernise it I will not be wearing something like this I will be wearing something more along these lines.

The tie will be different depending on what the others in my group are wearing but the simple idea is a black skirt a white shirt and a tie to make it perfectly clear that we are set in a school. I an thinking about getting glasses as my character is following the swatty rout but I haven't fully decided on this yet. And I will also be wearing tights as I have to jump off the staging and I think it will be practical for the sage. I will tie my hair back as I am going for the clean cut student look rather than the rebel like Ryans character the Clown who will be dressed messy and comical to fit his character.