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Blackwater valley opera festival 2025
LISMORE
JUNE 2025
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (COSTUME assistant)
WRITTEN BY benjamin britton
DIRECTOR: Patrick Mason
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Dieter Kaegi
CONDUCTOR: David Brophy
SET & LIGHTING DESIGNER: Paul Keogan
COSTUME DESIGNER: Catherine Fay
REPETITEUR: Fraiser Hickland
CHOREOGRAPHY: Muirne Bloomer
ORCHESTRA: Irish Chamber Orchestra
CHILDREN’S CHOIR: Piccolo Lasso, Discover Singing Children’s Choir
CREW:
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Adam Fitzsimons COMPANY STAGE MANAGER: Julia Carson Sims
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Sue Crawford
COSTUME H.O.D.: Frances White
MAKE-UP, WIGS, HAIR: Maeve Readman
SET CONSTRUCTION: Des Fitzsimmons
SCENIC ARTIST: Marcus Molly
CHIEF LX, PROGRAMMER: Maeubh Brennan
SOUND H.O.D.: Benny Lynch
CAST:
OBERON: Iestyn Morris
TYTANIA: Ami Hewitt
PUCK: Barry McGovern
THESEUS: Christopher Cull
HIPPOLYTA: Gemma Ní Bhriain
LYSANDER: Peter O’Reily
DEMITRIUS: Gregory Feldman
HERMIA: Sarah Richmond
HELENA: Amy Ní Fhearraigh
BOTTOM: Dominic Veilleux
QUINCE: Jakob Mahase
FLUTE: Conor Prendiville
SNUG: Rory Dunne
SNOUT: Séan Tester
STARVLING: Massimo Modoni
PICTURES BY FRANCES MARSHALL
PROCESS:
FAIRIES: This stared with store-bought blouses, trousers and vests (as well as hats and shoes). Once dyed and painted, each set of trousers needed to be cut to length and then elacticated at the cuffs. We then added a pleated mesh fabric to the collars of all the vests. There were 27 fairies total.
THE WALL: This simply a square of fabric with a head hole. We added a lining and some elastic for comfortability and painted with a sponge stencil.
PYRAMUS’ CAPE: This was a semi-circle pattern made out of a curtain fabric.
LION MANE AND GLOVES: This was created with a padded crecent moon head piece that covered in strips of different fabrics. Some of these strips were tubes that housed wire or zip-ties.