Troilus and Cressida Research

For the Curious I decided to post some of the research I did for Troilus and Cressida.

Here you see the Trojan army; based on Iraqi/Middle Eastern military.  In the end I changed the Trojans into a blue uniform that would have been truly useless in the desert, but prooved useful to tell soldiers apart on stage. What carried over was the cut of the uniform and the way they are so well tucked together. Priam (The King) had one scene that wound up being cut...

The greeks were inspired by the US Army, and a little by Apocalypse Now and Mad Max

These were images for Thersites; the narrator/ magpie/ camp follower... part Greek, part Trojan, mostly just looking to survive.
The Greek Generals;
Cassandra (the woman who foresaw the destruction of her family and city) was put in a straight jacket... and Cressida (a pretty war trophy) was intended to be modern day Mid-Eastern beauty.
For production photos click here.

Evita Fittings

This week began the epic journey that is Evita.  There is a cast of 34 including teenagers and children.  The average cast member has about 7 to 10 costumes each.  That's only the amount of costumes, the changes are more than that because they repeat a few of those.  We now kiss our free time adios... and get hunkered into the routine of frantically setting up alterations between fittings that last about two hours each.  Today we spent two hours with our Evita and we will have at least another two fittings with her... all I can say is thank goodness she is a delight.  She mentioned that there were a few videos of her on youTube that she can't bring herself to watch... however I decided to look her up and found the video at the bottom... the one good thing about doing a stressful fitting week is that the cast is fun and being with a bunch of theatricals isn't so bad most of the time.