Costume Update

As you all know, I've been working on makeup and costumes for my buddy Dominic's show "Myth Adventures". The show consists of the re-telling of 4 classic Greek myths. Dom is responsible for two scenes, while the other director will tackle the remaining two stories. Dom is directing "King Midas", the story of the greedy King upon whom the gift of a golden touch is bestowed, and "Orpheus", the story of the musician who must travel to the Underworld to rescue Euridice, the love of his life.

The Midas costumes were pretty simple to take care of, as were the Orpheus costumes. I wanted Euridice to be able to have a really fun costume. Euridice is the most beautiful girl in the land, and she is captured by Hades and taken to the Underworld, where she is a living prisoner until Orpheus tries to rescue her. Hades agrees to let Orpheus take her out of the Underworld, but under one condition. Euridice may follow Orpheus out of the Underworld, but she must not speak, and Orpheus cannot turn back to look at her until they have left the cave, lest Euridice be lost to Hades forever.

I wanted to design a costume that communicated the prison in which Euridice finds herself, a tomb where she cannot speak but can still be seen. Her beauty isn't lost completely, but just wrapped up in the darkness of the Underworld. She is alive, but trapped, and that confinement is never entirely shaken. Here is a picture of the costume I designed. I think it nails the idea that I was going for, but I'm looking for a little feedback. When Euridice is captured, she is wearing all white. When we enter the Underworld, she is still wearing her white costume, with this veil now surrounding and imprisoning her. I plan on getting some pictures of her in the costume on stage, but for now this one is all I have.