Good news, I have been taken on as costume supervisor for a Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival performance! The performance is to be held in Bournemouth Gardens, in September. There are currently two performance dates - the 29th of September, and two more performances on the 12th and 13th of October. The festival is based around the theme of Journey - and this performance definitely fulfils the brief. 10 performers, already cast, are separated out into three groups. Each group will either have the melody, bass line or harmony, and will wander through the gardens until they final meet, forming the full song, before moving on to travel again. There is a possibility for some storytelling from the characters themselves but that is still being decided.
Today was my first meeting with the performance director and creator, Katherine Piercey. It was a very productive meeting, and we got a lot ironed out. The theme for the costumes in contemporary nautical, but the characters themselves will be created by the actors and rehearsals do not start until a week before Each character will have a piece of luggage, and at least three of them will have musical instruments - the largest and most intereting being a cello!
I have another meeting scheduled for next week, where I will be bringing in a set of designs based on the idea's discussed today.
I am going to start looking at what is available locally in terms of luggage as well, for inspiration and a better idea of what we can reasonably get our hands on.
The designs will be on here as soon as possible - at the moment I am on the hunt for a new camera as mine is out of action, images will be added as soon as!
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