Class Post -Costumes

How would you costume the role of Desiree to show that she lives in the Village but she's "different"?

The peasants in my performance would be wearing all black with Voodoo looking masks covering their faces. I would want the masks to be made with straw and have a blank expression. To contrast the idea that they are peasants, maybe there would be a few rips in their all black attire, but for the most part they would be bland and would not wear shoes. The rich would contrast by wearing all black as well, but instead wearing large and heavy pieces of jewelry. Their masks would have a blank expression as well, but also be made out of similar material as the peasants, just better kept. The peasants would have straw spewing out of the mask, whereas the rich would look cleaner cut. Desiree would look the same as all the other peasants, wearing the same black tattered clothes, except her face would be out without a mask. I want to do this to show symbolically that the Gods have lifted this 'sameness' out of her that her world encompasses. I would want Desiree to have a chance to be free and have many different emotions and see things that others can't (since they are blinded and stuck in their old ways with the masks.) I would want her to interact with everyone else through movements, and similar to my idea for the last quiz, I would want the gods to not be portrayed as people, but by drapes/sheets. Since the gods seem to fixate/control Desiree's fate throughout the story, I want it to seem like they are almost living in/as her. It is interesting to combat the idea that the gods do not have bodies to posses, but allow Desiree to have a face. I feel like this will add a very complex and new layer to the story. At the end of the story before Desiree dies, I would have Papa Ge go through her and knock her out of the room to the outside, and as he goes through her, a mask would end up on her face, with all of the colors of the different gods, OR I would have Desiree get kicked out of the Hotel and be behind the gates, and when she dies and the 'butterflies' come off her she would have the mask on.

Things to think about:
-Would anyone be able to talk but Desiree??