Costume party

Harrisonburg, lies a theatre. This tiny Virginia theatre restores how Shakespeare’s plays would have been performed. The American Shakespeare Center takes on the daunting task of preforming a comedy or a tragedy. Only with the actors themselves, a scarce costumes, and varying props. In 1623, when the Twelfth Night was originally debut, theatres’ did not have a large Broadway budget. The American Shakespeare Center trying to recreate exactly how costuming, lighting, music and sound, and set…

Mark Stewart’s, Passing Strange, is a semi-autobiographical rock musical that apprises the story of young man’s journey to find “the real.” In this play, Stew (Mark Stewart), tells the story of his younger self traveling from his home in Los Angeles to places such as Amsterdam and Berlin to become a great artist and musician. In this production, Stew has the conviction that “the real” cannot be obtained unless he perceives and witness’s different places from around the world. I watched a filmed…

Origins of Halloween: Halloween is believed to be rooted in the pagan Celtic Samhain rituals. Samhain means summer's end. The Celts followed a lunar calendar, so Samhain signified the end of summer and the end of the lunar year. Celtic villagers wore costumes to appease the spirits who were believed to enter the physical world on the eve of Samhain. Celtic rituals honored the visiting spirits by leaving portions of the harvest, as offerings, outside of the home. Mystical Qualities of our…

some people can’t celebrate Halloween. Sometimes kids don’t get to go out at night. If kids can’t go out at night to get candy they could get candy from school instead because the school will be celebrating Halloween. Kids also can have a little costume contest at school and get candy there instead of not going out because their parents won’t let them. Kids and adults can celebrate Halloween still, but at…

Fun Halloween Costume Ideas Halloween is a great time to allow your creativity to take over and truly be inspired. Long gone are the days when Halloween focused on ghosts and ghouls, these days, Halloween is all about being creative. Year after year, Neil Patrick Harrison, and his adorable family blow the minds of people across the world with their creative family costumes. Fortunately, you don’t have to be rich and famous to have fun with your costumes; it just takes a little imagination. The…

Do you think The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween or Christmas movie? I think this movie is a Halloween movie. This essay with persuade the reader that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie because most characters are Halloween based, the main setting is in Halloweentown, and Christmas gets ruined. First, I will discuss how majority of the characters are Halloween. The main characters are Halloween based, along with the protagonist, and the antagonist. They are all like…

Then companies started making costumes people started wearing them and think they can come to your house.First all don’t come to my house asking for food . A. I don’t know you B. My house it not a black friday sale C. I don’t have time to buy candy for you and 70 other people coming to my house! No I’m not selfish I would feed…

extremely hot, but this year was quite opposite. The weather outside wasn’t really that intense, but the wind was a whole other story. The wind was blowing so fast with such cold gusts that everyone had to wear winter jackets or sweatshirts over their costumes. It was a very treacherous night out there but everyone still had a great time. People were hard to recognize with all their gear on but everyone still went out to celebrate and have a good time. The spooky dark night could not change…

are living on the South Side of Chicago during the 1950’s. When designing the costumes for A Raisin in the Sun careful consideration must be taken in order to make sure that the costumes fit the time period. The choice of costumes is very important for the performance of the play because costumes can indicate a character’s sex, occupation, status, position, flamboyance/modesty and degree of independence. As a costume designer there are the following main objectives: to help set the tone and…

This shirt originated from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba and used to be called the Guayabana. The Guayabera stopped being produced in Cuba due to their economy and continued in Merida, Yacatan. The Guayabera shirt was so popular that even Luis Echeverría Álvarez, President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976, instituted it as one of his official pieces of clothing (Mentado, “El verdadero origen de la Guayabera”, Par. 4). The "huipil" is a traditional, square-cut blouse that is hand-woven and heavily decorated…