Written By: Emma Whipday

Directed By: Stephanie Holladay Earl

American Shakespeare Center (Spring, 2020)

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The show was written by Emma Whipday for the Shakespeare's New Contemporaries competition at the ASC, it is conversation with Shakespeare's Cymbeline  or Imogen as the ASC Tour adapted it. Unfortunately do to the outbreak of COVID, the show was cancelled right as fittings were about to begin for all of the built costumes. However the designs were featured as part of the staged zoom reading during the pandemic.

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The show is set in 1610-11, Jacobean England, with the majority lower class characters. The story switches between the present and the past, passing through different seasons as the maidservant, Cicely Lee, tells the audience her story. In order to focus the attention on her, Cicely and those whom she loves the most are in bright colors while everyone else fades into different browns, greys, whites, and blacks like memories. This would have allowed her to always stand out on stage.  

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​Pieces constructed by designer include: Cicely's Wedding Bodice, Anne Chapple's Dress, Rachel Halpin's Bodice, and Mistress Wintergill's Hood and  patterning and building for Cicely's apron and partlet, as well as William Heron's braies.​​

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