| Description | /1-2 Designs and sketches relating to the design of the costumes used in the 1977 and 1982 Chester Mystery Cycle Plays.
Includes:
Folder of watercolour sketches by David Dean showing the Chester Mystery Plays costumes, 1982.
Series of watercolour paintings by David Dean, 1982, all backed onto black card:
Creation Cloak Day 1 - light & dark, day & night
Creation Cloak Day 2 - firmament/heaven
Creation Cloak Day 4 - lights in the firmament, day & night, suns, stars & moon
Creation Cloak Day 5 - waters
Chester Mystery Plays Day 6 - God created Heaven and Earth and made man in His own image
Folder of designs for Chester Mystery Plays costumes (includes detailed pencil drawings and coloured paintings) by David Dean.
Large set of paper cutouts showing the detailed patterns of various costumes, backed onto cardboard. David Dean, 1977.
/3 Sets and/or designs for Chester including County Hall Amateur Dramatics Society, Christleton Players, Hammond School, Cheshire Education,
Royal Hunt of the Sun 1978; Coriolanus 1981; Follow the Star 1978; Aladdin 1977; King Lear (and rejects) 1980; Pinocchio 1979; Romeo and Juliet 1984; Chester Tales 1979; Snow Queen 1980; Christmas at Tatton 1981; Farmers Wife 1979; Twelfth Night 1977; Henry V 1979; Carmen 1981; Sleeping Beauty; also, education folder and miscellaneous unidentified designs. |
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