Costumes
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Costumes
Costumes are crucial to any production. They can be sewn from scratch, bought on the high street, or made by altering other clothes. In the National Theatre's Costume Department, a staff of designers, dyers, tailors and buyers work together to produce outfits for every character in every show.
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Medea's Dress: Making Blood and Mud
Dyer and Textile Artist Rosie Maccurrach demonstrates the dyeing of Medea’s bloodied and mud-stained dress, worn by Helen McCrory in the final scenes...
Costume in The Light Princess: King Ignacia
See how Designer Rae Smith's costume concepts are turned into beautiful finished pieces in the National Theatre costume workshop. This short film foll...
Costume in The Light Princess: Althea
Go into the National Theatre's costume workshop and fitting room to show how a dress, worn by Rosalie Craig as Althea in The Light Princess, was desig...
Acting with the bear costume
Danny Sapani (Actor) talks about the costume for Iorek Byrnison, a polar bear, in 'His Dark Materials' and working with the Costume Designer.
Costume design in His Dark Materials
Jon Morrell talks about the process for designing costumes for 'His Dark Materials', from his initial inspirations through to development and the fina...
Costume at the National Theatre
This is a pdf document which gives an overview of the Costume Department, including the design of costumes; the sourcing of costumes; an introduction...
18th century costumes for She Stoops to Conquer
Olivier nominated designer Mark Thompson talks about his designs for the gorgeous 18th century costumes in Jamie Lloyd's production of She Stoops to C...
Buying costumes on the high street
Contemporary costume designs require high street shopping
Costume bibles
The ‘bible’ contains designs, fabrics, trimming, photographs, and measurements