Theater - Wardrobe Mistress for Wonder in Oz WYDA
I've been given a few roles over the years, but this one has been far my most challenging. I got the opportunity to costume my first play with the wonderful West Yorkshire Drama Academy . The cast was built up of over 30 children from 7-18yrs. These lovely little bliders rewrote the two most infamous childhood stories, Alice in Wonderland & The Wizard of Oz and mate it into a trippy new age version of this classic. It was the first real theatre performance for the society and also for a few members of the cast. Whilst hand making 50% of the costumes i also sourced, borrowed and stole (technical not stealing) to put together this array of mentalness. With the classic characters in site, Alice, Dorothy, Tin man, scarecrow/mad hatter, the queen of hearts, lion twins, the grand oz ect all got a interesting colourful modern new look. We performed for one night (with months of preparation) and p...