Theatre Symposium, Vol. 26

In Other Habits: Theatrical Costume
1. Auflage, 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8173-7013-8
Verlag: University of Alabama Press

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Theatre Symposium Series

A substantive exploration of theatrical costume.

Stage costumes reveal character. They tell audiences who the character is or how a character functions within the world of the play, among other things. Theatrical costuming, however, along with other forms of theatre design, has often been considered merely a craft, rather than part of the deeply systemic creation of meaning onstage. In what ways do our clothes shape and reveal our habits of behavior? How do stage costumes work to reveal one kind of habit via the manipulation of another? How might theatre practitioners learn to most effectively exploit this dynamic? Theatre Symposium, Volume 26 analyzes the ways in which meaning is conveyed through costuming for the stage and explores the underlying assumptions embedded in theatrical practice and costume production.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCarroll, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Einzelne Theaterschauspieler & Regisseure
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction by Sarah McCarroll
- Chapter 1: Plus que Reine: The Napoleonic Revival in Belle Epoque Theatre and Fashion by Michele Majer
- Chapter 2: Creating a Realistic Rendering Pedagogy: The Fashion Illustration Problem by Caitlin Quinn
- Chapter 3: Where'd I Put My Character?: The Costume Character Body and Essential Costuming for the Ensemble Actor by Aly Renee Amidei
- Chapter 4: Embracing the Chaos: Creating Costumes for Devised Work by Kyla Kazuschyk
- Chapter 5: Dressing the Image: Costumes in Printed Theatrical Advertising by David S. Thompson
- Chapter 6: Costuming the Audience: Gentility, Consumption, and the Lady’s Theatre Hat in Gilded Age America by Leah Lowe
- Chapter 7: The RuPaul Effect: The Exploration of the Costuming Rituals of Drag Culture in Social Media and the Theatrical Performativity of the Male Body in the Ambit of the Everyday by Jorge Sandoval
- Chapter 8: A Brand New Day on Broadway: The Genius of Geoffrey Holder’s Artistry and His Intentional Evocation of the African Diaspora by Gregory S. Carr
- Chapter 9: “On the [Historical] Sublime”: J. R. Planché’s King John and the Romantic Ideal of the Past by Andrew Gibb
- Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah McCarroll is an associate professor of theatre at Georgia Southern University, where she also serves as resident designer and costume shop manager for the theatre and performance program. Her published scholarship has appeared in Theatre Symposium and in Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies. She has also worked professionally at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.