Hannah Gabrielle

Hannah Gabrielle has been a South London Theatre member since December 2006.

She began working on costume in 2003, creating an amalgam ensemble of costumes for the interpretative production of Medea at St Mary's University College, University of Surrey. The play was a free verse interpretation of Euripides' 'Medea' taking its influences from a wide variety of styles including the Keralan kathakali dance techniques, Pina Bausch and Robert Lepage.

The costumes consisted of a hybrid between traditional Greek robes, Roman togas and Indian saris. Costume played an integral part to this production as they began as white canvasses with powedered paint being thrown across them, ending in a bright canvass of colours.

After a brief haitus she returned to costuming in the July 2007 production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. This ensemble piece stripped the traditional dress down to a minimal black, white and red canvass of colours in modern dress. Costume should enhance the actor's ability to perform as opposed to elabourately concealing him or her.

Hannah Gabrielle