Overview

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.

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At last a book on costume that truly answers the questions practitioners and scholars ask themselves on a daily basis. Monks and Maclaurin combine their intellectual and practical skills in a book which must surely rank as the most significant book on theatrical costume this decade. - Scott Anderson, Queen Margaret University, UK An important text to engage students in theoretical debate. - Anne Curry, Nottingham Trent University, UK

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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. Aoife Monks is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Actor in Costume.

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