'Bus Stop' Costume designer presentation
Transcript of 'Bus Stop' Costume designer presentation
Bus Stop Costumes
Lauren Whitley
Grace Hoylard
•A middle-aged and passionate woman
•Owner of the diner, the setting of Bus Stop
“Help establish the style of a production.”
Elma Duckworth
• Teenage waitress at the diner
• Intelligent, but impressionable and gullible
“Indicate the Historical period of the play.”
Will Masters
• The good-hearted, moral, local Sheriff.
“Indicate the nature of individual characters… their occupations, their personalities.”
Dr. Gerald Lyman
• Philosophy professor with a drinking problem
• Has a weakness for young women
“Show relationships among characters.”
Cherie
• A cheap-dive nightclub singer
• Hoping to be more than what she is now
“Symbolically convey the significance of characters or theme.”
Bo Decker
• Foul-mannered young cowboy
• Wants Cherie to be his bride
• Orphaned at 10
“Meet the needs of individual performers… to move freely.”
Virgil Blessing
• Older, wiser cowboy
• Bo’s head ranch-hand
“Be consistent with the production as a whole.”
•“Father” to Bo Decker
Carl
• Driver of the bus• Has off-and-on
sexual relationship with Grace Hoylard
“Stage costumes should meet [these] seven requirements.” -The Theatre Experience, 12th Ed., Edwin Wilson