Costume - (Readings in Theatre Practice) by Ali Maclaurin & Aoife Monks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This collection of readings and practitioner interviews examines the role of costume in performance and how it produces, reinforces, or deconstructs identity. Exploring costume in the contexts of key historical periods, artistic movements, people and performances, the authors consider theoretical and practical approaches to the craft.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Exploring costume's role and function in a variety of theoretical, historical, conceptual and practical contexts, this exciting volume also reflects on the broader relationship between costume and visual culture throughout.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"I am delighted to have this book as part of our literature, and highly recommend it to students of costume design in theatre, television or film, theatre studies, performance studies, fashion and textiles, art and architecture, gender studies and cultural studies. It is an invaluable resource that offers an entryway through which designers, directors, performance theorists and historians may tread towards a more comprehensive history and theory of costume, with its infinite manifestations and functions." --<i>Linda Matheson, Studies in Costume & Performance, Vol. 1 (1)</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Ali Maclaurin is a freelance designer and lecturer. She has practiced for over twenty years, particularly in physical theatre and young people's work, with companies such as Scottish Opera and Shadow Syndicate. <p/>Aoife Monks is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Actor in Costume.<br>Ali Maclaurin is a freelance designer and lecturer. She has practiced for over twenty years, particularly in physical theatre and young people's work, with companies such as Scottish Opera and Shadow Syndicate. <p/>Aoife Monks is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Actor in Costume.</p>
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