Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Dressers help actors in 'Irma Vep' make lightning-fast costume changes
baltimoresun.com: "The production of 'The Mystery of Irma Vep' running at Everyman Theatre has a portrait that drips blood, an Egyptian sarcophagus, hidden passages out of which characters unexpectedly pop, a mad woman in the dungeon and such deliberately tongue-in-cheek dialogue as, 'He killed the wrong wolf!'"
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Hah, what a show. I'd love to see this production if only for the sheer theatricality of the costume quick-changes. I debated briefly whether or not it would be amusing to be able to see the scene changes (i.e. if the actor changing and the dressers were behind a slightly translucent scrim for costume transformations) but decided against it, since the comic moments are really more in disappearing and completely reappearing as someone else in seconds. Tech for this show must have taken AGES... well, they probably began working in costume on the first day of rehearsal, really. Wow...
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