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EDGAR SAWYER, THE CROOK, AS DICK TURPIN.

“His blood spins through his veins; winds around his heart; mounts to his brain. Away! Away! He is wild with joy.”  – William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood.

Richard ‘Dick’ Turpin was an early Georgian era highwayman whose life and legend fused to create an enthralling myth. A remorseless and occasionally brutal criminal, Turpin was subsequently romanticised through literature and film into a dashing, heroic, Robin Hood type. - x.

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FROM THE WARDROBE OF FERIHA DEMIR :

Feriha wears a combination of Victorian and Turkish clothing, the former influenced by her move to London at fourteen and the years she’s lived there since then. She is at a sort of in-between—out and about, she wears dresses and gowns like her British peers (row 2), but still largely prefers Turkish clothing (rows 1 and 3), which she wears at home and in the company of family and friends. While her choice of English-style clothing is because of assimilation, she often likes to incorporate touches of her homeland in her jewelry. She prioritizes comfort, favoring breathable, soft fabrics. She likes bright, bold colors, and is rarely seen in dark shades.   

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Anthony as Apollo

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LIONEL MORRISas NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. | @misterzafiro

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ꟷ AYDA ABBASI as JUSTITIA.

Fiat justitia, ruat caelum. (Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.)

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Mister Zafiro as Empress Joséphine Bonaparte

Joséphine Bonaparte, born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, was Empress of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I. Her marriage to Napoleon was her second. Her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, was guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she was imprisoned in the Carmes Prison until five days after his execution. Napoleon sent her many love letters. In February 1797, he wrote: “You to whom nature has given spirit, sweetness, and beauty, you who alone can move and rule my heart, you who know all too well the absolute empire you exercise over it!” However, Josephine rarely wrote back and when she did, her letters were dry and often tepid. Napoleon was said to have kept a picture of her in his pocket which he would plant many kisses on every passing hour. Josephine, however, never even looked at the picture of her new husband that Napoleon gave her.  Because she did not bear Napoleon any children, he had their marriage annulled in 1810 and married Marie Louise of Austria.  @orionshunt

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The Embezzler as MORGAN LE FAY 

In Arthurian legend, Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress. Early appearances of Morgan do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a goddess, a fay, a witch, or a sorceress, generally benevolent and related to King Arthur as his magical saviour and protector. Her prominence increased as legends developed over time, as did her moral ambivalence, and in some texts there is an evolutionary transformation of her to an antagonist. Morgan comes to have several major, somewhat contradictory, roles in the Arthurian legend, though the association with magic is constant. A significant aspect in many of Morgan’s medieval and later iterations is the unpredictable duality of her nature, with potential for both good and evil—she can be her brother Arthur’s sworn enemy, determined to destroy him; sometimes she is the enemy, not of Arthur, but rather of Guenevere. (x) 

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Jacob as ODIN

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ELEANORE WHITTOCK as GUINEVERE, of ARTHURIAN LEGEND.

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TOSHIRO HILL AS GENKURO FROM YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA

The kabuki Yoshitune Senbon Zakura featured a shape-changing kitsune who disguised himself as Satō Tadanobu, a samurai who followed military commander Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Upon rescuing Yoshitune’s lover, Shizuka, Yoshitune rewards “Tadanobu” a suit of armor and the name Genkurō. At a later point in the play, Yoshitune meets with the real Sato Tadanobu. Thus, Genkurō undergoes a costume-change to reveal himself as a kitsune. In the ensuing dance and monologue, the kitsune describes his connection to the drum that Yoshitune has carried with him throughout the play. Shizuka and Yoshitune grant the spirit the drum, and Genkurō exits with the kistune roppo dance along the hanamichi portion of the theater. The fox spirit returns to aide the characters in the final act of the play.

Image Sources: Shizukuya’s Autumn 2021 collection,  Woodblock Print of Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Fox-Genkuro and Bando Kamezo as Yokawa Kakuhan, Kogatana Bonus: Yoshitune and The Thousand Cherry Blossoms (1985)

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Ruth Leveen as Lysistrata from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

“You must now show that you’re resilient−stern but yielding, with a good heart but mean, stately but down-to-earth.”

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ANDY SHARMA AS GULLIVER FROM GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

Andy is much more used to being behind a camera than being in front of one, but he gamely steps up to the challenge in an outfit inspired by the protagonist of Jonathan Swift’s four-part satirical work Gulliver’s Travels. 

With the help of costumier friends, Andy manages to put together a presentable eighteenth-century costume in green and gold, complete with a tricorne hat and a first edition copy of the book itself. The highlight of his outfit? The embroidered 6-inch tall Lilliputians climbing up his fancy breeches, and, in one of his pockets, a little Polly-and-Feriha-sized doll that seems to wave hello at whoever sees it.

Sources: (clockwise from left) Men’s suit © The Kyoto Costume Institute; illustrated first edition of Gulliver’s Travels; tricorne hat; Gulliver’s Travels illustration by Joey Guidone

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Arthur as Romeo Montague ( template. )

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Nathaniel Bonetto as Jaques from As You Like It

“It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”

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DOROTHY ZHOU AS MADELINE USHER OF THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EDGAR ALLEN POE

“I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”

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