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Collage of costume design sketches for A Company of Fools' 2015 production of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

Title

Collage of costume design sketches for A Company of Fools' 2015 production of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

Creator

Imeson, Vanessa (costume designer)
Jacobs, Alexandria (collage creator)

Subject

Imeson, Vanessa; costume design; sketches; The Comedy of Errors; A Company of Fools

Description

Costume design ideas for the 15 characters in The Comedy of Errors. Note that there are six different sketches collaged into one photograph. Each illustration shows all of the costumes that a cast member would wear during the production. Starting top left to right: the Courtesan and Dromio of Syracuse, Egeon and Dromio of Ephesus, the Headsman, the Messenger, and Adriana, the Abbess, Angela, Dr. Pinch, and Luciana, Antipholus of Syracuse and the Officer, and Antipholus of Ephesus.

Date

2015

Format

scan, colour sketches, png

Identifier

UO-SC-COF-COE-costume-sketches-2015

Source

A Company of Fools, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alexandria Jacobs, University of Ottawa (cataloguer)

Language

English

Rights

A Company of Fools

Files

UO-SC-COF-COE-costume-sketches-2015.png

Citation

Imeson, Vanessa (costume designer) and Jacobs, Alexandria (collage creator), “Collage of costume design sketches for A Company of Fools' 2015 production of William Shakespeare'sThe Comedy of Errors,” Shakespeare in Canada: A Cultural Map, accessed July 4, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/shakespearecanada/items/show/253.