Updated / Wednesday, 21 Apr 2021
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Katie Davenport, set and costume designer for
The Visiting Hour at The Gate Theatre, writes about the challenges of designing The Gate s first online production, which streams from April 22 - 24.
There s something really captivating and significant about the scenography and the mise-en-scene of the Gate Theatre space as it stands presently, an interior landscape that carries an immense visual and textual history, and now, also the absence of people. That clearing of space like a frozen forlorn image; the stillness of an empty theatre awaiting and beckoning the return of it’s community.
I’ve had the privilege to be a part of the creative team, designing the set and costumes for
This year marks 60 years since Holly Golightly stepped on to Fifth Avenue in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) in her iconic LBD with its pearl back. It’s a two-hour treat and I always pull my chair closer to the screen for a better view of Hubert de Givenchy’s costumes, especially those awesome funnel-neck coats.
I don’t even notice Grace Kelly’s voice anymore when watching
High Society (1956). All I see are those achingly gorgeous costumes designed by MGM’s Helen Rose, who went on to design Kelly’s wedding dress. Favourite fashion moments are when Kelly slips out of a Grecian robe to reveal a white halterneck bathing suit and, later, when she dances with Frank Sinatra in swirling layers of embellished grey and pink chiffon, a dress which now lives in the Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge, Co Kildare.
This year marks 60 years since Holly Golightly stepped on to Fifth Avenue in Breakfast at Tiffany s (1961) in her iconic LBD with its pearl back. It s a two-hour treat and I always pull my chair closer to the screen for a better view of Hubert de Givenchy s costumes, especially those awesome funnel-neck coats.
I don t even notice Grace Kelly s voice anymore when watching High Society (1956). All I see are those achingly gorgeous costumes, designed by MGM s Helen Rose, who went on to design Kelly s wedding dress. Favourite fashion moments are when Kelly slips out of a Grecian robe to reveal a white halterneck bathing suit and, later, when she dances with Frank Sinatra in swirling layers of embellished grey and pink chiffon, a dress which now lives in the Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge, Co Kildare.
Seavers In the News Mrs. Rachel B. Seaver Died in Boston in 1857
It s time for another edition of Seavers in the News - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.
This week s entry is from the
Boston [Mass. ] Investigator newspaper dated 15 July 1857:
The transcription of the article is: Obituary Died In this city, on the 8th inst., after a painful and a lingering illness (occasioned by cancer,) Mrs. Rachel B. Seaver, widow of the late James N. Seaver, and daughter of the late Mr. Adna Bates, aged 50 The remembrance that departed friends have led useful and upright lives furnishes consolation to rational and reflecting minds when death removes from them the objects of their affection and regard. In this respect, the memory of Mrs. Seaver is soothing to her relatives and friends. Her whole live was passed in good a
Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 10 December 2020).
This obituary provides the name, age, implied death date and place, a burial place, and the names of three married sisters. It does not provide a birth date, an occupation, work history, community activities, a spouse or children names.
Theron James Seaver (1887-1945) was born 12 April 1887 in Franklin county, New York, the son of William Eugene and Ella Sophia (Webb) Seaver. He had four sisters - Erma G. (Seaver) Cashman (11878-1926); Lola B. (Seaver) Reiger (1880-1958); Huldah J. (Seaver) Johnson (1894-1979); and Henrietta Ida (Seaver) Gibbs (1897-1983).
Theron Seaver married (1) Florence E. Baer (1889-????) in Waterbury in 1907, and (2) Mae A. ? (1896-????) before 1920. There are no known children by either marriage. A 1907 marriage announcement in the Waterbury newspaper in Waterbury, Conn. is the only record that provides Florence s name. The 1920 census is the only one that mentions M