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Costume Design

1963 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for Joan in the Court Scene of Saint Joan, showing a full length female figure wearing a long sleeved grey tunic, with, over, a brown, possibly leather, short sleeved jerkin and a breast plate, grey trousers, patched at the knee, and light brown calf length boots with turned over tops. She wears a sword hanging from a broad leather sash over her right shoulder and a leather pouch on a belt on her left hip. The design is signed and dated and inscribed with the name of the play, the theatre, the character, the scene and the actor.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink and crayon on paper
Brief description
Costume design by Michael Annals for Joan in the court scene in Saint Joan, Chichester Festival Theatre, 1963
Physical description
Design for Joan in the Court Scene of Saint Joan, showing a full length female figure wearing a long sleeved grey tunic, with, over, a brown, possibly leather, short sleeved jerkin and a breast plate, grey trousers, patched at the knee, and light brown calf length boots with turned over tops. She wears a sword hanging from a broad leather sash over her right shoulder and a leather pouch on a belt on her left hip. The design is signed and dated and inscribed with the name of the play, the theatre, the character, the scene and the actor.
Dimensions
  • Height: 432mm
  • Width: 296mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Michael Annals '63' (Signature; Lower left hand corner; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'Saint Joan / Chichester Festival Theatre 63 / Joan - Court / Joan Plowright' (Textual information; Upper right hand corner; Handwriting; Pencil)
Object history
This is one of a collection of designs which was part of Lot 366 in Sotheby's Sale of Illustrated Books, 22 May 1997. George Bernard Shaw's play, Saint Joan, opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre on 24 June 1963. Joan Plowright played Joan. The director was John Dexter. The Theatre Museum has two other designs for this production in the Michael Annals Collection.
Subject depicted
Association
Literary referenceSaint Joan
Collection
Accession number
S.336-1999

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Record createdAugust 2, 2000
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