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There were six extras who appeared nude in Faust, including Jane H. van Cleef ’06, the show’s costume designer. For her, appearing nude was only embarrassing during the first few rehearsals; as van Cleef said, “After that, I was just sort of jaded. You become shockingly jaded...
...Harvard’s better student actors, speaking crisply and radiating both disdain for the mortals with whom she must associate and a sadistic pleasure in watching them torment themselves. She is also lucky enough to get to wear a different gorgeous costume, designed by Jane van Cleef ’06, in each of her appearances. The chorus of minions are sufficiently alien and demonic, although it was impossible to hear any of their dialogue, which was spoken in overlapping snippets or in not-quite-unison. The play also includes a few addresses by a bizarrely dressed figure...
Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 learned to sew at her parents’ knees—her mother made bean bags, her father was a quilter. By high school, she had several catalogues and prom dresses to her name. Harvard has benefited from her skills via the stage: last year, she was praised for her work on Richard III and Cabaret, and she’s at work on the costumes for this fall’s Faust. She makes almost everything she wears...
...extended opening dance, we are greeted by feathered headdresses, multicolored loincloths and bare-chested beauty. While worthwhile for aesthetic reasons alone, the fiery costumes designed by Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 do well to reflect the heated words exchanged onstage and keep the show’s intensity high. The costumes even manage to contribute to the play’s characterization—as when King Edward emerges in mirrored garb that partly blinds the audience and partly reflects its image back. It’s coupled with exquisite makeup that creates deformity in Richard...
After rubbing the sleep from his eyes with a fishing boat, tangling with a lighthouse, and eating up a diving bell containing avuncular professor Cecil Kellaway, the Beast faces Army sharpshooter Lee Van Cleef in a final showdown - the Cyclone roller coaster in flames, dying monster lashing out - on Coney Island...