Episode description

Facilitating quick changes, cleaning, managing and setting costumes. With a threaded needle, safety pins and gaffe at the stand by for quick fixes in the dark. Following very detailed plots from pre show until after the final curtain, it is fast paced for a dresser in the theatre. Listen as we learn tips on how to lay out costumes to streamline quick changes, and costume hacks.

Podcast Episode Summary

00:00 Intro

1:04 What is a dresser, and your responsibilities?

2:35 What do you enjoy about being a Dresser?

3:44 What personal qualities make a good dresser?

7:54 What tools or equipment do you carry with you?

Pre Production;

10:00 Do you get any information about the show other than you're working on it?

Bump In;

12:39 What dose bump in in look like?

14:24 After unpacking the costumes from cases is there anything you do with them before the performer gets to wear them?

15:13 Dresser plots what are they and what information is on them?

Tech Run;

19:22 Are you working your way though the plots for the first time?

21:55 Is tech run the first time you meet the performers that you’re dressing?

23:30 Quickest quick change in time that have you been involved in?

26:00 Do you do any repairs to the costumes?

26:50 What’s your interaction with other departments in the theatre?

Dress Run;

29:12 Are you still learning you plot in this time?

Show Day;

31:28 How early do you get to the venue on a show day?

32:05 What’s involved in the pre show checks?

32:50 Do you steam costumes every show?

33:22 Just following your plot and hope it all goes smoothly during a show?

35:58 How do you deal with a problem in the middle of a quick change?

37:47 What ways have you found effective when arranging costumes in order to facilitate a quick-change?

40:48Do multiple dresses dress the same person and what are there roles?

41:36 What are your post show duties?

42:27 How long are you at the theatre after the show

Bump Out;

43:51 How much do you help with bump out and packing costumes away?

Post Production;

45:28 Any thing in post production?

45:36 What has being a dresser taught you?

46:37 Any tips or tricks you would like to pass on?

48:46 Outro

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