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A dye bath is a deadline
Film & Stage Magazine · 7 min read
Original documentary
Film & Stage Original
The Art of Costume Design
Four workrooms, one season, and the quiet discipline of dressing a company before an opening night.
- Release year
- 2026
- Running time
- 1 h 12 min
- Genre
- Production Design · Documentary · Theatre
- Certificate
- Certificate U
- Languages
- English · Subtitles available
Synopsis
The film stays in the cutting rooms: patterns, fittings, dye baths and the long negotiation between a designer's drawing and a performer's body.
It ends on the get-in, when three months of work is seen for the first time under stage light.
Cast
- Sandy Powell
- Contributor
- Vicki Mortimer
- Contributor
- Workroom staff, National Theatre
- Contributors
Creative Team
- Rosa Idowu
- Director
- Adaeze Okoro
- Producer
- Nell Draycott
- Director of photography
- Film & Stage Media Group
- Production
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