Aide Et Réconfort

This production was a new work that was a period piece based in the French Resistance after World War 2. My work was extremely research based. The script stated each character's history at some point in the play and I wanted to be sure that each of their unique personalities was clear from the first time you saw them. I separated the resistance fighters from the accused Nazi sympathizers by using more distressed masculine silhouettes for the fighters as well as the resistance arm bands while having the women accused of being Nazi sympathizers in dresses similar to what they would wear on a normal day. Jaqui, the youngest of the fighters, was in between fighter and civilian which I exemplified by having her in two pieces, but still in a skirt and she had a pin instead of an armband. The mothers could be recognized by the period snoods holding their hair back. Throughout the action of the play, the actors added dirt make up to their face, arms, and legs and messed up their costumes and hair.