Production photos by The Other Richard

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Costume Supervision | Orange Tree Theatre

Directed by Paul Miller
Designed by Simon Daw
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Lighting Design by Mark Doubleday
Sound Design by Elizabeth Purnell

Cast: Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Joe Bolland, Jordan Mifsúd, Alex Bhat, Hara Yannas

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‘Overruled’ and ‘How He Lied to Her Husband’ re-opened the Orange Tree theatre to audiences for the first time since the Covid lockdown.
Both productions were modernised in their setting to the present day with a flair and humour to the costume, touching on their early 1900s origin.

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“The costume choices, sometimes suggestive of days gone by, at other times clearly contemporary, blur the past with the present.”

Mar Pollard, Everything Theatre

“The costumes bring a bit more to  the cocktail party: in How He Lied to Her Husband, society hostess Aurora Bompas (Dorothea Myer-Bennett) wears a very strong dark red silk velvet jumpsuit while her naive admirer, young poet Henry Apjohn (Joe Bolland) perspires awkwardly in a pink velvet blazer, dark blue bow tie and matching cummerbund. Their just-about-believable Edwardianism is undercut when Aurora’s husband Teddy (Jordan Mifsúd) stomps in wearing blue jeans and a man-bun to shift gears for the play’s denouement. (It turns out that Aurora and Henry were dressed up to go to the theatre, to see Bernard Shaw’s Candida)”

Lily Levinson, Exeunt Magazine

“A combination of heritage frocks with modern-ish fashion – leather jacket, man-bun, trainers – subtly suggests the line of descent from Wilde and Shaw through Coward to the betrayal games in Harold Pinter’s The Lover.”

Mark Lawson, The Guardian

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