Nutcracker!
Information on the costumes, lighting and setting, as well as some basic facts.
- Created by: Lizzi
- Created on: 23-04-13 19:16
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- Nutcracker
- Basic Info
- First performed: August 1992
- Matthew Bourne
- Company: New Adventures
- 24 Dancers
- Contemporary, ballet, gesture
- Narrative and Comic
- Starting points: Nutcracker and Victorian Orphanage
- Proscenium Theatre
- 2 acts, 9 episodes
- Costume Examples
- Marshmallows
- Short, tight, pink, fluffy dress. Small heels
- Shows off legs/ figure- flirty
- Shows character/ sweet- light and girly
- Feminity
- Gobstoppers
- Hard helmet, bright colours, tight cap-sleeved tshirt
- Shows hard sweet
- Bright colour - confident, bold characters
- Masculinity. Boisterous.
- Marshmallows
- Setting
- Act 2- Sweetieland
- Bright pink glittery lips
- Oversized wedding cake
- Big pink heart
- Black and white checked floor (link to Act 1)
- Big and bold- a dream
- Celebrating the wedding of Nutcracker and Sugar
- Act 1- Orphanage
- Sparce, paper decorations
- Twiggy, dead 'christmas' tree
- Black and white checked floor
- Highlights time period (Victorian) and the miserable atmosphere
- Frozen Lake (Act 1)
- White, big cushion.
- Shows Christmas/ Winter
- Act 2- Sweetieland
- Lighting
- Clear, white light in Act 1
- Bright, pink and clear light in Act 2
- Spot lights on key characters (eg: Nutcracker and Sugar in 'pas de deux')
- Basic Info
- Act 1- Orphanage
- Sparce, paper decorations
- Twiggy, dead 'christmas' tree
- Black and white checked floor
- Highlights time period (Victorian) and the miserable atmosphere
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