Design Costumes for a Play

The scene I picked out of Cinderella was her wedding day. Whenever Eugreene goes to Cinderella and her stepsister’s house to find out who fits the glass slipper. Cinderella’s step sisters each try on the glass slipper but their feet were either too big or too small for the slipper. Eugreene asks’ “You are the only ladies of this household I hope, err I presume” and the step mom answers “there are no one else”. During this conversation Cinderella interrupts and asks Eugreene if she could try on the glass slipper.

The step mom and the step sisters told Eugreene to ignore Cinderella, telling him that she is nobody. As soon as Eugreene set eyes on Cinderella, he was sure that he found the owner of the glass slipper. He also told that he was ordered to, by the prince to have every girl try on the glass slipper. Eugreene calls in his assistant to bring in the glass slipper. As his assistant excitedly brings in the glass slipper, Cinderella’s step mom trips the assistant out of jealously as he was running over to Cinderella, Eugreene assistant trips over the step mom’s cane and the shoe flies through the air and the glass slipper lands on the floor and shatters.

Eugreene runs over to the broken glass slipper and starts to cry because that was the only slipper they had to help find the prince’s princess. The step mom looks over at eugreene and smirks at what she did; thinking that she ruined Cinderella’s chance of trying on the slipper, but, little did she know Cinderella still had kept the other glass slipper. The step mom and sisters look at Cinderella in shock because they couldn’t believe that Cinderella was the mystery princess. Eugreene grabs the second glass slipper and puts the shoe onto Cinderella’s foot and the glass slipper fits perfectly. After the glass slipper fits. The prince and princess go and get married.

For the costumes of this scene I really wanted to try to go modern but yet keep it classic. In the beginning of the scene when Eugreene arrives at Cinderella’s house I have Cinderella’s costume in scrubs with a white apron, brown dirty dress. For the glass slipper that Cinderella tries on the glass shoe and the heel of the slipper has a gold bow on top of the heel of the shoe.

At the prince and Cinderella’s wedding, I kept the Princes’ wedding outfit classic. The prince is wearing brown slacks with a white soldier jacket. Over the white jacket there is a gold satchel. Underneath the satchel there is a thin brown waist belt to match his shoulder pad on his jacket and also to match his pants. For the prince’s father I also kept his costume classic. The father’s costume is similar to his son’s costume, but, instead the father’s pants are red and the jacket is knee length. To show royalty there are gold ropes around the collar and a red satchel also gold trim throughout the costume.

For Cinderella I wanted her costume to be modern with a puffy white strapless dress with diamonds studs. In the play she has sleeves, instead of having sleeves I have Cinderella wearing white elbow length gloves. For her shoes, they are white satin shoes with diamonds on the tip of the shoe. Also in the movie she wore a veil. I think if Cinderella is turning into a princess that she should wear a tiara. So for her veil I decided to have a diamond crown with a white veil flowing down behind her. For Cinderella’s make up I wanted to do a shadowing silvery blue look to match her dress. The prince and the father I didn’t use make-up on the

The priest that marries Cinderella and The prince he is wearing a white hat with gold veins and roses coming out the middle of the hat. To match his hat his outfit is white with silver stripes on the edge of his sleeves. On the middle of his gown he has red floral on the front. The horses that are pulling the carriage have big white feathers on top of the heads as hats to match the prince and the Cinderella’s dress.

Theatre Profile

American conservatory of theater was founded in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1965. Since founders’ day of A.C.T, A.C.T has a lot of exciting history. Since there is a lot of history about American conservatory of theater I am only going t o talk about a few that was appealing to me.

• 1965, A.C.T had their first performance ‘Tartuffe” at the Pittsburgh playhouse in Pennsylvania and at this time A.C.T was recognized as a new resident theater company in Pittsburgh by the direction of William Bell.
• 1966, American conservatory theater moved to San Francisco and become one of two heavy weight contender.
• 1968 and 1969 A.C.T starts a student matinee program. A.C.T conservatory classes start to include community actors; also they start a summer training congress.
• 1979 A.C.T wins a tony award for theatrical achievement and excellence in repertory performance and actor training. 1995 under the new director Melissa smith renews A.C.T commitments to excellence in actor training and to the relationship between training, performance, and audience. The kresge foundation awards A.C.T a $750,000 challenge grant for the Geary theater, which became one of the largest awards ever given by the foundation to a regional theater.
• 2003 The A.C.T. Young Conservatory creates a new international link with Theater Royal Bath (TRB). The two-year program includes Bath commissioning a major American playwright (Jim Grimsley) and developing the play (War Daddy) in a two-week workshop at A.C.T.
• American conservatory theater mission is to strive to learn and explore an artistic for and also theater traditions which are their legacy A.C.T commits to the highest standard form of their creative work. The leadership director Carey Perloff shows A.C.T responsibility to conserve, renew, a reinvent the theater traditions. American Conservatory theater cultivates the art of theater through production, also on actor training, and also with deeply concentrates the community.

American conservatory is a school of arts to help student’s progress in their theoretical future. The A.C.T master of fine arts has produced different material for their students. The students go through a three year program. For the first year of being a student actor, students attend the Alexander Technique, physical theater, and a circus skills class. These three classes in the first year of student acting trains them for acting, voice, speech, movement, singing, text analysis, theater history, studies in the San Francisco cultural landscape, also special workshops like mask, t’ai chi, stage combat and improvisation.

The second year, A.C.T teaches the student actors art of acting in old English literature plays such as William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Moliere. And the last year of attending A.C.T mainly focuses on the public performances. Each year the actor student attends helps them exceed in acting, from teaching them the history and extensive course work, to expanding and finding out their inner acting ability , to finding out what type of actor the student Is, and showing their ability to the public.

Other material that they produce is that they serve different type of internships for the students. The internship that A.C.T provides hands’ on training inside a professional theater, the student interns learn what drama means to the community and how enriched theater is to the community. A.C.T student interns attend graduate programs, worked in major regional theaters; also they manage the role of being directors, designers, and stage managers. Entering the intern program students will develop strength in their professional, skills, and abilities. Also for writers in theater they have script submissions, which means writers are greatly encouraged to express their theoretical ideas to A.C .T.

American conservatory theater appeals to me because they strive to help young actors succeed. I may not want to be an actor but reading their mission statement and what their goals are to do to help their students I would love to visit A.C.T. I love how well rounded A.C.T is they not only teach acting classes, but they also acknowledge students who want to become a director. They also encourage students to send in their idea scripts.

I really like how A.C.T teaches their students, they don’t rush or push, but yet they strive to help their students found the actor in themselves. The first year of A.C.T they teach them the history and composition of acting, they teach the basics and have out of the ordinary classes to teach them that you don’t always get the part that you are perfectly good at. The second year of A.C.T, the students learn to start performing into plays within the school, learning how well their skills are, also to improve their actor school. The last year which is the third year the students put everything they have learned together and show the community how well of an actor they have become. A.C.T really has their number one focus on getting their students to be successful.

Write a review for a play that you attended this semester

Recently I attended Waller hall theater performance “The Servant of Two Masters”. This is a comic play about a servant who decides to serve two masters Beatrice, and Florindo. The beginning of this play started off a little slow, but as the play progress the more interesting it got. The twist in this play is that the servant between these two masters is that they are lovers looking for each other. Beatrice fools her servant and the other characters by disguising as her lover Florindo to try find out where he is located. Unknowingly that he is at the same castle she is at, but they keep missing each other. How the two lovers find each other is when Truffaldino mixes up their clothing, Beatrice’s ends up with Florindo’s notebook and Florindo ends up with Beatrice’s picture of himself that he gave to her.

Whenever they discovered these items’ Truffaldino lied to each one of his masters saying that they had died in a tragic incident. Hearing Truffaldino’s stories about their lover Beatrice and Florindo decide to hang themselves because they didn’t see the point of living if the love of their life was dead. Beatrice and Florindo almost came through of killing themselves until the two waiters from the kitchen stopped them. During all of this commotion Beatrice and Florindo end up seeing each other and realizing that each one of them was alive.

The servant decides to lie to each of these masters to get double of everything he needs such as money and food, and also to try to get out of trouble from the mistakes he had done. What makes this play so comical is how Truffaldino tries to serve his two masters, he mixes up their mail, and also he starts to mix up orders that he was assigned to do. What makes this play such a little romantic is that some of the characters fall in love with each other; Clarice and Silvio, Smeraldina and Truffaldino, and Florindo and Beatrice. The style of this play is from the mid-15 century in Italy. Overall the play was turned out to be a really good show. In “The Servant of Two Masters” there were a few things that stuck out to me; the acting, costumes, and the transition and lighting.

The acting in this play was amazing and really amusing. Sean Barett played “Truffaldino” and he was really amusing to watch. His part was played as a jokingly servant. Sean played his part very well he didn’t over exaggerate his part, but, he expressed his inner role to show us the character of the servant. Although he took much of the attention, when it was his turn to share the spotlight, he had no problem to step back. Every one of the actors played their part very well and understood the meaning and the theme of the script. Natalie Palmides, played the part of Smeraldina, didn’t have a main role in the play but she also played her part really well. Her character Smeraldina was a maid that loved flirting with men, and also was a little jealous of her master Clarice because she was in love with a handsome man named Silvio. Natalie expressed her love for men and attention very well and also was full of energy. The entire cast played out this romantic comedy really well.

The costumes that the actors wore really went with the play. Not only the clothes, but the masks the actors wore, really caught my attention. Many of the characters wore half masks with exaggerated features, each masked character developed a defined physicality, way of walking, set of gestures, and personality traits. The transition and lighting were really fascinating to me because even though this isn’t the main focus of the play, but it is the one of the most important. When the scene was set on being in the castle the lighting was brighter and shined throughout the whole stage to show the affect that we were all inside the castle with the characters. When the scene was set outside in the town the light was a slight dimmer and more focused on the middle of the stage instead of the whole stage.

The Theater by the grove, Waller hall theater performance is set in the oak grove beside the Stapleton library. I think that this theater isn’t that great looking, but I think it is a good place for students, faculty, staff, and people from the community to go and enjoy a play. The cost of the show was $14 for adults and $8 with an I-card for students. The audience needed no extra help to understand and to get in the mood for the play, which made the play way more interesting, amusing and exciting to watch.