COSTUME RESEARCH

TEMPLATE FOR COSTUME DESIGN

MacBeth: Emotional Response

This August 1992 National Geographic image was selected by scenographer Kari Glass as an emotional response for director Susan Raley's WITCHES-AS-BIRDS concept for La Costa Canyon High School production of MACBETH.

Rugged majestic rams graze along the Alaskan alpine heath. Three mischievous magpies scavenge upon the decapitated head of this great fallen Denali Dall sheep slain by wolves along the raging Toklat River. This once regal ram is gleefully ravished and devoured by the all consuming corvid crones.

When shall we three meet again

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

When the hurlyburly's done,

When the battle's lost and won.

Where the place? Upon the heath

There to meet with MacBeth.

I come Graymalkin!

Paddock calls. Anon!

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

MacBeth: Lady MacBeth Costume Design

This August 1992 National Geographic image was selected by scenographer Kari Glass as an emotional response for director Susan Raley's WITCHES-AS-BIRDS concept for La Costa Canyon High School production of MACBETH.

Rugged majestic rams graze along the Alaskan alpine heath. Three mischievous magpies scavenge upon the decapitated head of this great fallen Denali Dall sheep slain by wolves along the raging Toklat River. This once regal ram is gleefully ravished and devoured by the all consuming corvid crones.

When shall we three meet again

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

When the hurlyburly's done,

When the battle's lost and won.

Where the place? Upon the heath

There to meet with MacBeth.

I come Graymalkin!

Paddock calls. Anon!

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

MacBeth: Witch Design No. 1

Kari Glass is currently researching and designing MACBETH for director Susan Raley. The director envisions the three witches having bird qualities and Hecate with a snowy owl alter ego. These birdlike characters will be able to molt, shedding their feathers to reveal their true inner crone.

Hecate's Snowy Talons

MacBeth: Witch Design No. 2

MACBETH

Designs and Process by Kari Glass

CORMORANT CRONE

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top

notched

jagged shrill

ogee

crooked neck

twist

silken swept

winged witch web

waisted cape . broken beak

naked necklace tidal tie

boiled bilious

bird

end trails

.

Ogee Neck

Winged Head Scarf

Photograph by Phil Imrie

MacBeth: Witch Design No. 3

MACBETH: foul is fowl: Hecate Design

Have I not reason, beldams as you are,

Saucy and overbold? How did you dare

To trade and traffic with Macbeth

In riddles and affairs of death;

And I, the mistress of your charms,

The close contriver of all harms,

Was never called to bear my part

Or show the glory of our art?

And, which is worse, all you have done

Hath been but for a wayward son,

Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,

Loves for his own ends, not for you.

But make amends now: get you gone

And at the pit of Acheron

Meet me i'th'morning. Thither he

Will come to know his destiny.

Your vessels and your spells provide,

Your charms and everything beside.

I am for th' air. This night I'll spend

Unto a dismal and a fatal end.

Great business must be wrought ere noon.

Upon the corner of the moon

There hangs a vap'rous drop profound;

I'll cath it ere it come to ground:

And that, distilled by magic sleights,

Shall raise such artificial sprites

As by the strength of their illusion

Shall draw him on to his confusion.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear

His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace, and fear:

And you all know security

Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Hark! I am called. My little spirit, see,

Sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me.