Behind The Scenes: The Costume Shop

Our costume shop is pretty typical, only smaller than a normal theater. Fabric, ribbon, thread and patterns everywhere; you can tell that people actually work here. Not me. I just watch and remind people that the costume they're working on was needed yesterday. Or the day before.
In this photo you can see a performer in a 'body block'; a rough muslin mock-up costume that will be used as a pattern for the real thing, in this case, one of the diamyo for "47 Ronin".

The Genroku-Ako Incident: 47 Ronin

Ori and Oishi (disguised as Lady Fujimori and her handmaid) encounter the Monk.
During this production our esteemed Dramaturg has been bringing lunch in on the weekends. He felt it was necessary to eat Japanese food while we did this show even though he is anti-'method'. Of course, he hates fish, so he brings in these ramen bowls that he buys in bulk from a Japanese grocery. I'm not talking about crappy "Cup O Noodles" or "20 for $1" ramen packs, these are big styrofoam bowls that come with three or four different packets of stuff; extra fancy. There is no English anywhere on these bowls; study the picture-instructions carefully. I'm eating a lot of things I've never seen before. This guy has a thing about ramen and I was told today to get ready for more because there's a lot of ramen in William Gibson's work and we start on 'Burning Chrome' soon.