Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

118 Chapter 5 Designers and Technicians
“Blood will have blood,” says Macbeth after killing Duncan. Stage
blood is the costume designer’s and makeup artist’s nightmare, for the
costumes (or at least some costumes) have to be worn afresh at the
next performance. But blood is fundamental to the theatre, certainly
in most tragedies (which stem from rituals involving blood sacrifices),
and solutions must always be found. Here Liev Schreiber as Macbeth
and Jennifer Ehle as Lady Macbeth try to cover their murderous tracks
in Moisés Kaufman’s production for Shakespeare in the Park at New
York’s Delacorte Theatre in 2006. © Michal Daniel
Red, white and black—surrounded by a hall of mirrors—make startling
design patterns of love, life, and death in this Australian production of
Jean Genet’s The Maids, with both costumes and scenery designed by
Alice Babidge and lighting by Nick Schlieper for this 2014 performance
in New York. A sometime thief, prostitute, and frequent prisoner, Genet
was a shocking avant-garde novelist and playwright of the second
half of the twentieth century, and his “maids” are here planning to
assassinate their mistress—if they don’t do it to each other first. Cate
Blanchett (foreground, with back to the mirror) and Isabelle Huppert
play the title roles. © Ruby Washington/New York Times/Redux