RSC completes £8m project to update theatre’s costume department

The Guardian given preview of teams making props and costumes for The Comedy of Errors

“This is the first time I’ve had natural light in 32 years,” said Alan Smith as he contemplated the job in hand: cutting some thick brass to make a jewel-encrusted knuckle duster for The Comedy of Errors.

Elsewhere in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s redeveloped costume workshop, people were busy making rainproof chefs’ hats, dusting trainers to look as if they’d been worn in Dubai and lamenting the lack of polyester in men’s suits.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/355Rc3z

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