Wardrobe: Green Practices in Theatre Part 4
Green practices aren’t just in reducing waste. There are several ways you can decrease your production’s environmental impact through your wardrobe department.
Tag: costumes
Watch Your Back! Tips To Avoid Injury In The Wardrobe Department
After spending hours at a time laboring over a sewing machine, loading the last laundry load of the night, and hanging up costumes following a quick change, feeling aches and pains are just part of the job. Right? Wrong.
A Costume Is A Costume
I love costumes. They’re fun to wear, they help to tell the story of the show you’re working on, and they help you to delve deeper into your character. It’s fascinating to me, as a youth theatre director, to see the change in demeanour when a young actor puts on their costume for the first […]
Working Backstage: For The LOVE Of
Remember the first day of school, all the feels? Excited to see old friends and start something new. Nervous energy as to what challenges lay ahead. Curious of the lessons in store and who we would be so lucky to receive those lessons from. Same goes for any new job to some degree or another.
A Circus Life
Authors note: I met Eddy Ventura in late 2007. I was a newly hired rigger at the Cirque du Soleil show Mystere in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is not common for the rigger with the most experience to also be the humblest, but that was Eddy. He would be the first to volunteer for a rigging project. He was always eager to pass along his rigging skills to younger less experienced riggers, like myself. He was also an encyclopedia on the subject of the circus which I found out was a part of his life since he was a teenager. Now in his late 60’s, he told me in great detail of his time in the circus. This is his story… in his own words.
