The One act play is a theatre festival between several Peruvian-British schools. Every year my school, Newton College, has participated in this event and almost all the time Form V IB theatre students are those in charge of creating the One Act play. We create the play itself, we write it and are in charge of the production aspects of it. The play is going to be presented at the start of September which leaves us less than a month to rehearse since we have already finished the production aspects of it.
The play is called the OTHERSIDE and there are only 6actors in the play, There are 3 characters and the story centers around an orphanagae in which there is a mirror which separates two parallel dimensions. In this orphanage there´s only one orphan a butler and the director of the orphanage. The characters wer the same in both “dimensions” but be ause they were parallel they all were inverted, their personalities were different for example, on dimension A the butler loved the orphan, Tommy, and the owner, Clemendra, hated him. On the other dimension it was the opposite Clemendra loved the kid and the butler hated him. To make this differences more obvious we rely on the costumes, for example on one dimension the kids uniform may have long sleeves and on the other short ones.
In this play I was once again in charge of costumes. In Down to Earth we had to cut down most of the human designs (most of them were mine) because of budget limitations, therefore I would take care of the costumes AND make-up in the one act play. Because we are only 6 actors we could now use better textures for the clothes. In this occasion we spent more time revising each costume, and trying to make the costumes different enough so the audience will notice without making them so different that they will look as two separate characters.