Taking Theatrical License: can collaboration and creativity overcome the potential pitfalls of recreative practice?
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This paper will examine the important role of collaboration and creativity in overcoming the challenges inherent in recreating historical theatrical costume. Focusing on a project to remake a costume worn by the actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as Imogen in the 1896 production of Cymbeline, it will demonstrate the cumulative knowledge and deeper understanding gained through uniting a range of specialist skillsets to examine, document, and remake a single garment. In this instance, the triumvirate of maker, conservator and researcher not only facilitated a re-consideration of the on-stage life of this costume, but also illuminated its original construction, and complex afterlives. In this paper one such afterlife - recreation – is highlighted, but it is a practice which is often fraught with questions and complications, therefore can taking a more theatrical approach be a potential answer?
Authors: Isaac, Veronica, Morrison, Rebecca
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7006250501
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