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Costume Design

1964 (made)
Artist/Maker
Jacobs, Sally (designers)

Costume design by Sally Jacobs for Malika in The Screens. Full length female figure, drawn in pencil, ball point pen and crayon on white paper, with applied tinsel. Two fabric swatches, pinned together, upper right. She wears an ankle-length dress with a black bodice and a skirt vertically striped in black and yellow, the yellow heavily patterned. The design is mounted on black paper. Signed and dated.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Designs
Theatre Costume
Object type
Costume design
Materials and techniques
Pencil, crayon, ballpoint pen and tinsel on paper, with attached fabric swatches
Pencil
Crayon
Ballpoint Pen
Tinsel
Cloth
Paper
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Costume design by Sally Jacobs for Malika in Genet's play, The Screens, 1964
Physical description
Costume design by Sally Jacobs for Malika in The Screens. Full length female figure, drawn in pencil, ball point pen and crayon on white paper, with applied tinsel. Two fabric swatches, pinned together, upper right. She wears an ankle-length dress with a black bodice and a skirt vertically striped in black and yellow, the yellow heavily patterned. The design is mounted on black paper. Signed and dated.
Dimensions
  • Design height: 298mm
  • Mount height: 317mm
  • Design width: 210mm
  • Mount width: 257mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'The Screens - Donmar / Sally Jacobs '64' (Artist's signature & textual information. Upper left hand corner.)
  • 'Malika - / Mia Anderson' (Textual information. Lower right hand corner.)
Object history
Associated production: The Screens, or, Les Paravents. Playwright: Jean Genet. Designer: Sally Jacobs. Director: Peter Brook. Actor: Mia Anderson. Performing company: Royal Shakespeare Company. Donmar Rehearsal Rooms, London, January 1964. Performance category: Drama. Peter Brook directed this production in collaboration with Charles Marowitz. Mia Anderson played the role of Malika. The production was staged by an experimental group from the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was first presented as part of the Theatre of Cruelty season at LAMDA in 1963. Costume designs for this production: S.1000 to S.1009-1995.
Subjects depicted
Costume
Malika
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.1000-1995

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Record createdOctober 7, 2010
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1173373/costume-design-jacobs-sally/
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