Plays, fashion, obviously there is a connection here... (have you LOOKED at those veils?)

Later in the play Alashiya looks even more insane (in a good way) in another white dress. A HUGE SYNTHETIC 70s WEDDING DRESS to be precise, and while I do not have photographic evidence of it on her, I can present the following - glorious - sight of Zing wearing it in my kitchen. She then walked home at some early hour of the morning in it. Cos that's what you do when you're a costume designer. You develop a relationship with the clothes.



And back to the play...





See those wonderful swirls of skirt? That is why it is always sensible to own a long 50s skirt. Because it is so good for SWIRLING and TWIRLING. Who could ask for more?

Also the shoes. Will you LOOK at Olivia's shoes?



Tilt your screen (or head) so that you can make out the cream dress on the white mannequin. I want that dress. Look at the wonderfully angular cut of the neckline (yes. It is ALL about the necklines) Also, the lace on Ella's sleeve. That's the kind of detail that transforms a large black peasant-esque shirt into something beautiful.






The House of Bernarda Alba
Costume Designer: Zing Tsjeng

Ohhh, is it story time again? Are you sitting comfortably? (but more importantly do you have good POSTURE? Bad pains suck. And sitting straight makes you look so much more elegant. She says, hastily drawing herself up) This time it's a story about a family of sisters in Spain who are never allowed to leave the house and never allowed to have sex. Hmmm, is there a theme to the morals on these posts? (or to the photo shoots/plays that are put on in Cambridge? Go discover the sexist Da-Vinci-related mystery behind it my children. Be brave. Be true. But it may just turn out to be a coincidence...) The result is lots of scenes of sexual-frustration-being-expressed-through-unreasonable-hostility. Much the way I imagine single sex education to be, which is why I avoided it, as I can be unreasonably hostile without the need for any additional factors around.

The set, the lighting and the costumes were STUNNING (actors you were very good too but that doesn't have any direct relevance to my photos. You know how it is) as was the decision to have the girls occasionally express their sexual frustration not by making snide remarks at one another but through through the medium of ROMANTIC DANCE (like Billy Elliot? Is is my hopelessly limited knowledge of the history of dance coming through here?) which they did to Grease's 'Hopelessly Devoted To You'... IN SPANISH.

Have your day radically improved here

That's going to make you so happy. But it was even BETTER when you were watching girls dance seductively but very straight-faced with mannequin dolls at the same time...





Like THAT.

P.S. How much do you want a mannequin doll? Just to have around, being a clothes horse, looking cool. And of course being your imaginary friend/wisely counsellor like the dress maker's dummy in 'How I Capture The Castle'...