Disaster averted! Narrowly...
Sep. 25th, 2008 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseIf you've been reading this blog for a long time, you may recall the Bleach-rot Disaster of 2006, in which a costume disintegrated upon laundering because of lackadaisical discharge-printing (on behalf of some unknown manufacturer, not anyone at our shop).
We had a similarly disastrous issue narrowly averted today, thanks to advance testing collaborations between myself and the scene shop.
In Pericles (currently running in preview, opening this Saturday evening), there is a small lake onstage, and many of the actors trail their costumes through it, splash through it, fall into it, and as you can see in this photo, are attacked and flung into it:
Our scenic folks need to put some kind of water purifier in the lake, so we don't have algae or other gross issues during the course of the run. Today, our TD brought me a bucket of one of the options, bromine, to test its effects on the costumes of those performers whose action takes them through the lake.
Check out these results:
There are some slight alterations of the two "Antiochus' Daughter" fabrics, but look at that drastic effect that the solution has on our "Cleon" fabric! It's a good thing we tested it out first, rather than having an unpleasant surprise when, after a few performances, the Cleon garment suddenly began to turn a vomitty shade of brown all around the hemline...
We had a similarly disastrous issue narrowly averted today, thanks to advance testing collaborations between myself and the scene shop.
In Pericles (currently running in preview, opening this Saturday evening), there is a small lake onstage, and many of the actors trail their costumes through it, splash through it, fall into it, and as you can see in this photo, are attacked and flung into it:
Our scenic folks need to put some kind of water purifier in the lake, so we don't have algae or other gross issues during the course of the run. Today, our TD brought me a bucket of one of the options, bromine, to test its effects on the costumes of those performers whose action takes them through the lake.
Check out these results:
There are some slight alterations of the two "Antiochus' Daughter" fabrics, but look at that drastic effect that the solution has on our "Cleon" fabric! It's a good thing we tested it out first, rather than having an unpleasant surprise when, after a few performances, the Cleon garment suddenly began to turn a vomitty shade of brown all around the hemline...
