La casa de Bernarda Alba Pre production ideas COSTUME
academia
La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca Faktəri Production Company Directed by Lucas Rivera-Casanova Bernarda Maria Josepha Amelia Martirio Adela La Poncia
Cemre Salur Melis Nur
Chorus
Lucky Vemuri
Claudia Wit ------- Lucia Xu -------
Uniform Ideas
Idea 1. All girls Christian boarding school. In this theme, I decided to highlight the religious aspects of the play. I imagine the academy would be an all girls Christian boarding school. I wanted the uniform to depict humility and to channel the inner cowardice child that all of the sisters had. I wanted to implement the color green as not just a symbol of envy but also a symbol of hope to one day be free. Therefore, I decided to implement it in the school uniform
Colors
Idea 1 sketch
Idea 2. Deceptive
school girl
Idea 2. sketch
Colors In this theme I wanted to highlight the complete opposite from the last. This theme is about indulgence and the self consciousness that surrounds the family. Due to this, I envision the uniform to be composed of many articles of clothing which the girls need to have at all times. I envision it to be very fitted and high end. I would look for top notch designers for inspiration in order to emit a snobby yet claustrophobic emotion for the audience.
Idea 3. Surreal aerial beauty
In this theme, I wanted to explore a more surrealist aesthetic even though the director wanted to change the location of the play into an academy, I wanted to go beyond school uniforms in order to highlight the sexuality that was oozing out of these girls. The fact that these girls were not in fact girls but women would be best represented with the most feminine flight attendant uniforms ever encounted.
Idea 4.Black and White Continuing with the surreal aspect, I was imagining the world of “La casa de Bernarda Alba� in black and white in order to highlight the enclosure and the mourning that they are all going through. I also thought that depicting the way they were being treated as these non-sexual creatures would be best represented in a unfitted uniform.
Ideas for Bernarda
Idea 1. All girls Christian boarding school and
Deceptive school girl
One thing’s for sure, we want Bernarda to wear a suit. We want her to exude fear and we want her to demand respect. Bernalda is self-conscious therefore regardless we choose to go with Theme 1 or Theme 2. She has to look on point. However in this depiction of Bernalda, we have chosen very stiff fabric and a very hasrsh and geometric print. We would like her to sport a pearl necklace since that represents idealism in a woman, however, we would like it to be a iridescent, toxic, polluted green.
Idea 2. Black and White and Surreal aerial beauty
This Bernalda will perfectly accompany Theme 3 and 4 since we are willing to explore a more theatrical vivacious aesthetic and silhouette. Unlike the previous Bernarda, this Bernarda is not as masculine. She celebrates female empowerment by being feminine, even though she will wear pants she will sport ruffles and fur and pearls in all of the things that proud, successful women wear. In addition, she will have an essence of the Spanish culture in order to depict the proud empowered women that we are yearning to show
Idea 3. sketch
Idea 2. sketch
Drafts
After countless production meetings the director decided to proceed with idea 3: Surreal Aerial Beauty with a Spanish twist. For Bernarda we decided to go with ideas 3 and 1 combined since the director appreciated the masculine qualities that idea one had, however we wanted to recollect and highlight the mourning stage that she was in.
The Spanish Flamenco hat, also known as the Cordobes hat was a pivotal piece of the costume.
Final Renders
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