Make-Up

  I trialled the ‘old person’ make-up on the characters of Camillo, Cenci and Lucretia. As these characters are meant to be quite old, especially Cenci and we have adolescent actors I thought this would assist the audience in believing their characters as well as help the actors to create their characters. I also thought that by making Cenci look very old, the audience would be even more horrified that he rapes Beatrice as he doesn’t just look like someone her age. This proved to be more difficult than I anticipated however and I was glad we trialled it as some of the lines, especially on the forehead didn’t turn out very well at first. I also wanted to make Lucretia and Camillo look older but not by as much and therefore decided just to do the wrinkles around their eyes and mouths which worked very well. While these looked a bit fake up close, on the stage under the lights they looked great.

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