Jan 31, 2022
Celebrating the launch of 'Voices of British theatre design', an exciting new British Library website featuring over 50 audio clips from National Life Stories oral history recordings.
Billy Meall’s costume design for Shakespeare’s Richard III
Theatre designer Billy Meall (born 1947) describes the terrifying costume he created for Shakespeare’s Richard III. The costume featured a shrunken hand, armour with a spiked hump, and a painful boot that caused the actor Paul Jesson to drag his leg around the stage. Paul Jesson (born 1946) is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.