It's time to go all Roman! Tales From Ovid....

First Meeting

Another day, another project! Today I met the designer, makers, supervisor and team for the latest AUB Production. My role this time round is Textiles Supervisor. I have never done this role before but I am very excited to get my hands dirty in the dye room and experiment with fabrics and techniques!

Here are the basics of the play. It's 10 short stories, 38 characters - 7 women and 5 men. There is no real setting, no time era and is a dreamlike world, not reality... Gods, nymphs and mortals are the characters and the costume and set must be beautiful. All the actors multi-role, therefore there will be base costumes and add-on garments to indicate the character change. It's a physical and emotional piece of theatre. The main idea the designer, Bethan Francis, wanted to show was merging of the set and characters, that the black set floor creeps into the costumes. This is reflected in the designs with the ombre effect. The show is being played at Bournemouth Dance Pavilion for 4 nights at the end of February so we only have 2 months to get the show on! Eeek! Exciting yet scary. 

It's strange as the project feels like it will start slowly but I know from experience it's going to get pretty manic. There is a lot of problem solving due ahead I can tell.....