National Theatre
How to Do a Costume Quick Change
What does it take to be a dresser in the theatre? Quick changes happen backstage at the theatre when an actor comes off stage from one scene and then quickly has to go back on stage for the next scene in a different costume. Watch some...
Learning Mole
Pop Fox Theatre - Exploring Costumes
Follow Rosie, Xixi and Haha as we explore different costumes for different characters.
Learning Mole
Pop Fox Theatre - Using Costumes
Follow Rosie, Xixi and Haha as we explore different costumes for different characters.
National Theatre
The Exciting Process of Devising Theatre: Behind the Scenes of Jane Eyre
This video features a teacher discussing the process of devising theater, where the actors collectively create a performance without a script. They explain the physical and verbal language used to bring characters to life and the...
Crash Course
Realism Gets Even More Real: Crash Course Theater #32
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, theater was evolving rapidly in Europe. Impresarios like Georg II, Duke of the Duchy of Saxe Meinengen (in what is now Germany), were pushing theater troupes to new heights of realism. New...
Crash Course
Poor Unfortunate Theater: Crash Course Theater #48
Poor Theater and Theater of the Oppressed were two sort of concurrent movements that shared some of the same aims. Jerzy Grotowski's Poor Theater eschewed the use of lighting, props, costumes, makeup, and many of the other trappings of...
National Theatre
Medea's Dress: Making Blood and Mud
Dyer and Textile Artist Rosie Maccurrach demonstrates using dye in costume design, as used for Medea's bloodied and mud-stained dress, worn by Helen McCrory in the final scenes of the 2014 production.
National Theatre
How to Make a Wig: Knotting Hair and Fitting a Wig
How to Make a Wig part 3/3: The final stage of making a wig is adding the hair. The National Theatre's Wigs, Hair and Make-up department knot each individual strand of hair into their bespoke wigs.
National Theatre
National Theatre Live | All About...All About Eve
The cast of All About Eve introduce us to the story. Broadcast live to cinemas on Thursday 11 April by NT Live - find your nearest screening here: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/ntlout34-all-about-eve --- Gillian...
The March of Time
Dallas theatre
MOT 1948: ON THE ROAD: CU Pamphlets for theatres in other cities Boston Dallas. People entering Dallas regional theatre w/ standing poster 'Twelfth Night' directed by Margo Jones. Play in progress theatre-in-the-round w actors in costume...
The March of Time
1920s: VAUDEVILLE: GALLAGHER & SHEEN: Ed Gallagher & Al Sheen leaving theatre in costume, people standing BG, car pulling up to curb, both getting into car, crowd of people watching BG. (Note: Al Sheen Marx brothers uncle)
MOT 1920s: VAUDEVILLE: GALLAGHER & SHEEN: Ed Gallagher & Al Sheen leaving theatre in costume, people standing BG, car pulling up to curb, both getting into car, crowd of people watching BG. (Note: Al Sheen Marx brothers uncle)
The March of Time
1936: U.S. THEATRE: FEDERAL PRODUCTION: MS Tailor fitting large man. WS Seamstresses sewing. VS Painters painting set on stage. VS Costume designers fitting dress, headdress. WPA (Working Program).
MOT 1936: U.S. THEATRE: FEDERAL PRODUCTION: MS Tailor fitting large man. WS Seamstresses sewing. VS Painters painting set on stage. VS Costume designers fitting dress, headdress. WPA (Working Program).
The March of Time
1953: CALIFORNIA FILM INDUSTRY: TD MS Hollywood stars cement hand & foot prints at Mann's Chinese Theatre, Myrna Loy, others, TD Mary Pickford. SUPPORT STAFF: VS Ilustrator, costume designer, set designers, make-up, camera cranes, people waiting.
MOT 1953: CALIFORNIA FILM INDUSTRY: TD MS Hollywood stars cement hand & foot prints at Mann's Chinese Theatre, Myrna Loy, others, TD Mary Pickford. SUPPORT STAFF: VS Ilustrator, costume designer, set designers, make-up, camera cranes,...
The March of Time
1936: U.S. THEATRE: FEDERAL PRODUCTION: WS Couple buying tickets at booth, sign 'Acts of Vaudeville.' INT WS Carpenters working on set design. MS Elderly man sewing. VS Costume designers looking at art rendition, talking. MS Carpenters measuring. WPA.
MOT 1936: U.S. THEATRE: FEDERAL PRODUCTION: WS Couple buying tickets at booth, sign 'Acts of Vaudeville.' INT WS Carpenters working on set design. MS Elderly man sewing. VS Costume designers looking at art rendition, talking. MS...
Nature League
Nature + Performing Arts
On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of the performing arts by showing the behind-the-scenes process of putting on a production of Disney's "The Little Mermaid". Special thanks to the Missoula...
Crash Course
Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku: Crash Course Theater #23
We're headed back to Japan, this time in the Edo period to follow up on Noh theater, which had gone out of style last time we checked in. Now, under the Shoguns, there's couple of really interesting types of drama on the scene. Kabuki is...
Crash Course
Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana: Crash Course Theater #22
This week, we're headed to the Americas to learn about the theater that existed there prior to the arrival of Europeans, how the theater of the Spanish influenced it, and the impact of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, playwrighting Spanish nun...
National Theatre
Twelfth Night: Disguises
Director Simon Godwin and actor Tamara Lawrence discuss disguises in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
National Theatre
How to Make a Wig: Making the Foundation
How to Make a Wig part 1/3: Master wig-maker Leanne Lashbrook from our Wigs, Hair and Makeup department shows step-by-step instructions for how to make a wig. In this episode: making the base for the wig.
National Theatre
How to Make a Wig: Adding Lace to the Foundation
How to Make a Wig part 2/3: In this video wig-maker Leanne Lashbrook shows how to add lace to a head mould, in preparation for knotting in the individual strands of hair that make up the wig.
National Theatre
Cleopatra | Dressing a Queen
'Cleopatra’s the ultimate icon. My intention was to create something that looked like high fashion.' Go behind the scenes with Costume Designer Evie Gurney to see how the costumes for Antony & Cleopatra were created. Antony & Cleopatra...
Royal Opera House
Inside the Royal Opera House Armoury
You'd expect a theatre like the Royal Opera House to have costume and prop-making departments, make-up teams and scenery workshops, but an Armoury?! Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk The Royal Opera House is in small company among...
Curated Video
Shakespeare in Ten Acts
Exhibition open until 6 September 2016 A landmark exhibition on the performances that made an icon, charting Shakespeare’s constant reinvention across the centuries. Journey through 400 years of history – from the first productions of...
Tate
Anthea Hamilton – The Squash | Tate Britain Commission | Tate
Anthea Hamilton has transformed the heart of Tate Britain with sculpture and performance. A solo performer in a squash-like costume inhabits the Duveen Galleries every day for more than six months for the Tate Britain Commission 2018....