‘Great minds don't always think alike’: Advocating for a Collaborative Approach to Interpreting and Re-constructing Historic Theatre Costume’

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Abstract

This paper will highlight the important role that collaboration can play in unpicking the multiple meanings historic costumes carry in their fibres. Taking a project to rigorously recreate the costume actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928) wore as Imogen in the 1896 production of Cymbeline as its focal point, it will demonstrate the cumulative knowledge and deeper understanding gained through uniting a range of specialist skillsets to examine and document a single garment. In this instance, as the paper will show, bringing together the triumvirate of maker, conservator and researcher has not only facilitated a re-consideration of the on-stage life of this costume, but also illuminated its original construction, and complex afterlives.

Conference

ConferenceCollaboration and Co-Creation in Theatre and Performance Histories, Theatre and Performance Histories Working Group, TAPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association), University of Leeds
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLeeds
Period30/08/231/09/23
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