Costumes

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Costume sketch for Benvolio © Ben Stones
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Who helps to make all the costumes for a play?

This year, there is quite a big team working on costumes for this production. There are: three interns (Anna-Claude Biron, Silje Odemotland and Molly Rae Wither); two wardrobe deputies (Lisa Aitken and Jordan Colls) and a costume supervisor. We talked to the costume supervisor, SARAH GRANGE about:

- what a costume supervisor does;

- where the clothes came from for this show;

- how the designer and the costume supervisor work together;

- how she got into working with costumes .

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What does the costume supervisor do?

As costume supervisor, my primary role is to liaise with the designer and anyone else who is i

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Where did the costumes from this production come from?

The costumes for this Romeo and Juliet have come from all over the place, the length an

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How do the costume supervisor and the designer work together?

The relationship depends a lot on the particular designer.

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How did you get into working with costumes?

I was really lucky; the school I went to had a brilliant working theatre, so I got involved in

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