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...stray butterfly or two are creeping into the home-décor market, shooing away the graphic, geometric prints that have for so long dominated the scene. Mother Nature now alights on everything from John Derian découpage platters to branch-shaped candle holders by Michael Aram. Even Van Cleef & Arpels is escaping to the garden with a dazzling dragonfly clip. ?By Betsy Kroll
...what a current it is. The staff, including professional set designer Todd Weekley and costume designers Casey M. Lurtz ’07 and Jane H. Van Cleef ’06, successfully creates a sense of a state somewhere between waking and dreaming, to match the delirious flow of words and ideas throughout the piece...
...hard to know what to make of the costumes, designed by Jane H. Van Cleef ’06. While the play is set in modern dress, and the Lords wear inoffensive suits, the fairies wear a ridiculous array of rags that seem to have been bought for a dollar a pound at a consignment shop and then dragged through the mud several times. The result is suitably strange, but also a little baffling; why would the aristocratic and starchy Lords marry women who look like mentally disturbed paupers? It’s even stranger when you consider that Iolanthe...
...comfort level was such that the nude performers did naked stretches backstage before the rehearsals, and the cast became very nonchalant about it. Van Cleef admitted that some jitters returned on opening night, but she found that she could channel her jitters elsewhere...
...really angry about the status quo and how Mephistopheles used cultural norms to screw over Gretchen, so I channeled my embarrassment into righteous indignation,†van Cleef said...