of Chandlers Ford

Unsung heroines

The rebuilding of the Green Room has also provided our two wardrobe mistresses with a costume store, making costume allocation for our recent pantomime much easier.

Margaret, our Wardrobe Mistress for many years, and her assistant, Pat, have moved in and filled this new room to the ceiling!

Pat and Colin, the lighting man, up to no good in the wardrobe!

As we've been putting on plays for 30 years, we've accumulated quite a lot of costumes! Our two Wardrobe Mistresses, Margaret and Pat, constantly amaze us by taking an unpromising piece of material and producing an absolutely hideous garment for the Dame or a beautiful ball gown for the Princess.

Above Margaret checks a costume is complete, whilst willing helper Joy sews fastenings on a new outfit. Our 2003 pantomime, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, needed 3 bear costumes, and a gorilla, along with multiple clowns, gipsies, and some new stunning Dame outfits.

Hermann Goerring, from our production of Allo, allo, also had a starring role in Goldilocks as a stunt dummy!

Abanazar, the Dame and our faithful camel!

They are expert at recycling too, and last year's Elizabethan style can turn to Fairy Tale to Medieval to Carolinian in what seems like the drop of a hat. Of course, it's not really that easy, and takes a lot of time to dress a large cast.

Female Transport required dying fabric to a variety of shades of donkey brown! Sarge's jacket came from a charity shop and the lapels and cuffs added.

Right, Ritual for Dolls needed a doll, golliwog, monkey and a toy soldier.

Recently, we've done quite a few plays which have required costume too, several of which have required uniforms. We can recommend Sabre Militaria in Southsea. This is an Aladdin's cave of militaria! We first discovered them when we needed W.W.II uniforms for "See how they run", recently hired W.W.I uniforms and guns for Jimmy McBride and kitted out 'Allo, 'allo with a variety of German and Italian uniforms, including the "dead chicken on his head"!

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Costume hire

For uniforms
We do hire our costumes from time to time, so please e-mail us