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Give me My Robe, Put On My Crown screengrab / 2007
In Give Me My Robe, Put On My Crown Nicola Lane celebrates the talents and creativity of 4 women students successfully graduating from Clean Break’s 2005/06 Access to Theatre in the Community course, where each woman had prepared two audition pieces, one selected from Shakespeare and one from a contemporary playwright. The title comes from one woman’s performance of Cleopatra's speech from Shakespeare’s ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’: Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have immortal longings in me…
The women worked with Nicola and a professional make-up artist to represent the look and the persona they felt most expressed their characters. Using digital video, Nicola filmed the women performing straight to camera in head and shoulders close-up, with photographer and lighting designer Stuart Wellburn lighting the performances to reflect and enhance each characterisation.
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Nicola edited the individual performances side by side in split screen, presenting the women both as individuals and as a group, the speeches edited as a dialogue between past and present, positive and negative, vulnerability and strength.
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All images screengrabs from Give Me My Robe, Put On My Crown / 2007
Give Me My Robe, Put On My Crown
Colour / DV
Runtime: 30 mins
Director & editor: Nicola Lane
Lighting designer & camera: Stuart Welburn
Lighting Assistant: Yvonne Redway
Make-up design & advisor: Claudine Henderson
Make-up team: Reniece DuBois & Patrizia Carlotta
Production: Sarah Nixey & Samantha McNeil
Composer & sound mix: Louis Morand
Performance tutors: Anna Ziman & Tessa Walker
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