Private message to Daphne Greengrass

[alt_sally_anne]

Gemma has taken it into her head that she wants to try to put on a play (for the family) and of course the part she is MOST interested in is costuming and theatrical glamours. Could you recommend any books that would explain some simple glamours? Nothing super fancy because it has to be something I can manage. She wants to do a theatrical version of that book about about the girl who got kidnapped from her wizard parents and hidden in a muggle home (it's set a hundred years ago) they're all cruel to her because they think her powers make her dirty and disgusting, and then the truth is revealed and so on, you probably know the one. So we're thinking fake dirt and bruises for the first half so she looks suitably pathetic. And then I already know how to do something glittery for the second half that she'll like.

We'll see if she actually has the patience to REHEARSE. Did I mention it's really the glamours she's most interested in?

Anyway, do you know a good book? We can send away for a copy if you can suggest any titles.

Thank you so much! I thought about just waiting to ask you on Monday but if you can tell me now I can probably have it sent while I'm off at the CCF training camp (which will console Gemma a bit given that I'm about to leave for a week.)

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[alt_daphne]

Oh, doesn't Gemma sound sweet, wanting to play-act for the family. I'll do my best to help but I really don't know how good I'll be, since I've always been invested in the acting side of things as far as theater goes. You see, in theater there's usually a whole different group of people who manage the glamours and costumes. Still, I did do my own glamours for Moon's play, and helped quite a few others with theirs, so I should be able to recommend something. Let me see...

Well, Erme's book of glamours in the era of oppression is spectacular. He designed theatrical costumes for characters like Holda, Marie Laveau, Hecate, Circe...all of them are simply scrumptuous. That book's just fun to look at for the pictures, though - the glamours themselves would be impossible to replicate without years and years of practice.

So I guess just go with something like Creative Theatrical Glamours, by Roberto Gorson. It's very simple, but still a well-regarded book.

I hope I've helped.

[alt_sally_anne]

That sounds absolutely perfect. Thank you! The Erme book does sound fun to look at, perhaps we'll send for a copy of that, too.