Making Stage Costumes

Making Stage Costumes is for anyone who finds that, despite a lack of experience and a meagre budget, they want and need to invent and create stage costumes. Topics include: understanding the structure and work of a theatre company; production meetings; budgets; de-coding costume clues in a script; altering modern clothes for period productions; set up and equip a workroom and understanding how to help an actor build character with costume. Written in a practical style that draws on the author's own enthusiasm and experience, Making Stage Costumes shows you how to make your ideas come to life on the stage.