I've never made a kimono before but always wanted to! At certain stages it felt like sewing origami, all these folds, corners and intersections! Loved learning how it unfolded, and now I want one!
A special costume commission for St Jude's Players Inc for the theatre production of "M. Butterfly" 2017.
Costume included:
one red bridal kimono;
champagne obi,
one white kimono & obi
a white mock kimono collar.
Image courtesy of St Jude's Players Inc.
Image courtesy of St Jude's Players Inc.
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| Behind the Scenes at the shoot on location! |
Outstanding Photo shoot & post-production, shot on a salt lake location in the south east of South Australia, by Adelaide Photographer, Julius Zieleniecki Photographer
Scroll down to see his stunning photography!
M. Butterfly: "David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play was winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize.
Based on a
true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped
prison cell where French diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive
by the French government—and by his own illusions
M. Butterfly
was inspired by an article Hwang read about the real-life 1986 scandal
involving a French diplomat, Bernard Bouriscot, who for twenty years
maintained a relationship with an international spy and Chinese opera
singer.
Echoing Puccini's Madame Butterfly, this highly
theatrical drama presents Rene who is easy prey for the exotic charm of
Chinese opera singer Song Liling. Hwang interweaves details from the
Bouriscot story with plotlines from Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
(1904).
Gallimard first encounters Song on stage as she performs
the title role in the opera and develops a relationship with her.
Subsequently, he abandons her and returns to his wife in France. Several
years later Liling re-establishes a relationship with Gallimard, who is
now divorced from his wife.
After living with Liling for over
fifteen years, Gallimard is arrested and tried for espionage. He is
accused of providing the Chinese government (via Liling) with French
state secrets.
In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when
desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful
Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive—and as
elusive—as a butterfly."
by Adelaide Photographer, Julius Zieleniecki Photographer
