A look at the Costumes | Waldo's Circus of Magic & Terror

With Waldo’s Circus of Magic & Terror rehearsals well under way, we peek inside Costume Designer Ti Green’s sketch book to take a look at the flamboyant designs that await.

Designer Ti Green's costumes play with 1920s circus styles combined with touches of modernity to mirror the extraordinary music created by composer Charles Hazlewood. During a costume fitting session with the company, we managed to grab Ti Green for five minutes and asked her where the inspiration came from.

“My costume designs draw on early 20th-century circus styles, inspired by the shapes of Paul Poiret’s fashions, the Ballets Russes and Pablo Picasso’s circus paintings. They suggest a flamboyant but insular world, resistant to change and initially untouched by the rise of fascism in Germany.

The colours draw on the series of prints of circus scenes produced by Chagall, depicting turquoise tents filled with performers wearing pink, orange and green. As fascism takes hold of Waldo’s circus, the colours and styles of the costumes become more subdued are are ultimately forced into alignment with the uniforms of the SA and the Nazi insignia.”

So now you know!

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