This design by Tanya Moiseiwitsch was for a costume worn by Kathleen Michael as Ann Bullen (Anne Boleyn) in Shakespeare's Henry VIII directed by Tyrone Guthrie that opened at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on 15th July 1949. The production starred Anthony Quayle as Henry as Diana Wynyard as Queen Katharine, and included Paul Hansard as Sir Thomas Lovell.

Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003) was a prolific and innovative designer who produced both set and costumes for this production, staged on her interpretation of an Elizabethan stage. The critic Muriel St Clare Byrne wrote of it: 'When the audience entered the theatre, instead of seeing a curtain, they had before their eyes a lighted permanent set which remained unchanged and unhidden until the end. An excellent compromise between a platform and a picture-frame stage, it suggests a basic design which might well provide a happy and practicable solution to the problem of securing the effect of the Elizabethan stage within our modern theatres. Miss Tanya Moiseiwitsch is to be congratulated on the pleasing and dignified appearance as well as on the admirably functional qualities of this set, with its varied levels, its ample forestage, fifteen feet deep, and its well thought- out modifications and rearrangements of the gallery and the inner- stage.'

Kathleen Michael (1917-2004) was a British actor whose work in from the 1960s to the 1990s was mostly in television.