I have combined my last unit of my second year at university with my annual project of costuming Bournemouth Shakespeare Players' summer production.
The unit is titled Self Directed Project and, just as the title suggests, it is a project where we are to organise ourselves and manage the entire project ourselves, to completion. I was hoping that we would be given some structured lessons on techniques we have not come accross so far in our course but we have been told the tutor support is only there to oversee our work and that we must find our own solutions and find books and information on construction proceedures that we have not previously covered.
Although I am costuming the entire production (which you will be able to read about on my other blogg pages throughout the summer), for the purpose of SDP I am consentrating on one particular character.
Production: The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Character: Sir John Falstaff
Falstaff is seen as one of the most important characters in this play as most of the farce throughout the story revolves around him and his greedy plan to gain the fortunes of at least one of the two Wives, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford (my character). He is however, unsuccessful in his plans and ends up being the laughing stock after the two wives play a series of tricks upon him in revenge.
The character is a knight who is seen in several of Shakespeare's plays and is always seen as a very corpulant figure. In this play he is down on his luck with little money and no estate, (hence his plan to woo one of the rich ladies of Windsor) and as a result is a little dishevelled.
We are not setting this play in the traditional period but rather brought it forward into the late 1940's - early 1950's. As a result, I will be sourcing alot of the costume items, with the exception of Falstaff, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford - This is a huge advantage for me as I am playing the role of Mistress Ford so have lines to learn and have many other projects I am currently involved in!
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