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We have started to accumulate props and costume pieces. Value Village is THE place to go for props and costumes, especially when the lovely lady helping you with costumes happens to have a stamp card full of fifteen stamps which will get you 30% off your entire purchase. So we took a trip to the double V in Burlington and got a number of items.
I'm not setting the production in any particular time period, but am going for more of a nostalgic feel, so going with anything that seems to point to the 1920's to the 1950's. And I'm doing this with costume, make-up, and music. (Though some of the music will be a little more current than the 1950's).
I tend to get stuck in wanting to go with a grey, or black and white colour palette when it comes to the shows I've worked on. I like to have a cohesive look to the show, and The Metamorphosis is another show that I found myself leaning towards black and white. I like the starkness of black and white; however this time I'm trying to add bits of colour into the show. We're trying to incorporate greens and maybe some purples into the show. Of course there will be other colours, especially in the set, but I'd like green to be the colour that really seems to stand out. Why green? Well, it's an absurd play about a very unreal circumstance, and green just seems other worldly to me, almost sci-fi, though I would not say this play is sci-fi at all, but green is eerie and this play is eerie. When I first mentioned going with the colour green I was told it was a difficult colour to light, so that made me take a step back and reconsider my choice. I asked my dad who is a set designer just how difficult green can be to work with on stage. He told me it's not actually difficult to light on stage, and people tend to look good in green on stage, but it is bad luck to use green on stage. This is what Wikipedia (the authority on everything) has to say about using green on stage:

The colour green is also considered to be unlucky. This is said to date from the time when most performances were given out-of-doors. Wearing green would make it hard to distinguish the actor from grass/trees/bushes in the natural setting beyond the performing area. Despite this superstition, the off-stage waiting area for actors is referred to as the green room.


So, I'm going with green.

Some prop pieces. 

Some cardigans, a sweater vest, shoes, suspenders and a tie.

Vintage aprons I bought from The Maker's Market last weekend.