09-17-2008, 01:59 PM
Quote:The big problem will be making stage gear which looks good! Coolus and Attic helmets might be easier to come up with using plastic toy helmets, and they'll still be fine for this era. If you really want something that looks like armor, there are several options for mail, but you might decide that helmets and shields are enough for your soldiers--and that was probably more common than we like to think, especially just for guard duty. Scale armor can be done by drawing scales on metallic fabric. A lot depends on how realistic you want to be, how much your actors will put up with (not to mention your costuming department!), and how much you want to SPEND.
Good advice Matthew in particular the latter! Theatre audiences are probably far more used to seeing 'Roman' dress as anything from contemporary clothing to a sheet wrapped around the body, than perhaps what a movie audience would expect to see.
I presume the play is the G.B. Shaw version? Both Caesar and his soldiers and just arrived in Egypt after a very hard campaign in Greece. The costumes could reflect this.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
