Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Players: Costumes and Makeup

The Players: Costumes and Makeup

Over the course of a single year at the RSC, 150 actors play 500 different roles, each requiring authentic period costuming and makeup. In this remarkable program, master costumers and makeup artists demonstrate their crafts as expressed in productions of The Tempest, Measure for Measure, and Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy. How does cleverly designed clothing help make Pompey more arrogant and Isabella look both chaste and alluring? How is Caliban’s speckled hide created, and how does Hieronimo seem to actually bite off his tongue? With subtlety and finesse, this powerhouse team works miracles of stage magic. (25 minutes)

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Item#: BVL8993
Copyright date: ©1998
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-7894-7

Part of the Series : Behind the Scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company


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