My favourite piece of art

My favourite piece of art is the play "Much Ado About Nothing", written by William Shakespeare between 1598 and 1599.

I like it because 

"Much Ado About Nothing" is tells the story of Beatrice and Benedick, that tease and insult one another mercilessly and repeatedly deny that they will ever marry anyone, let alone marry one another. However,  their friends arrange for them to overhear conversations revealing how much each is loved by the other. The other couple, Hero, Beatrice's cousin, and Claudio, Benedick's friend, have problems for stay together.  

Sweeney Todd

One of my favourite musicals Sweeney Todd: The Dmeonb Barber of Fleet Street.
It was created in 1979 with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and the book by Hugh Wheeler, and it is based on a fictional character of the penny dreadful called "The Strings of Pearls" written in 1847.

Set in 19th century in England, the musical tells the story of the barber Benjamin Barker, who returms to London after 1fifteen years in prison for false charges imposed by Judge Turpin. Barker looks for his daughter and wife, but Mrs Lovett, owner of a pie shop, tells him that his wife commited suicide some years ago and his daughter lives with the Judge. Barker decides take revenge and kill him, meanwhile he's still working as a barber, but under the name of Sweeney Todd.

The original production premiered in Broadway in 1979, with Len Cariou as Todd and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett. The costume design was by Franne Lee, and the stage design by his husband, Eugene Lee.

Other excellent productioms are the 2005 Broadway revival with Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone in the principal roles, and costumes designed by Patrick Chevillot, the same designer of the movies Spiderman 3, and Night at the Museum 2.

And the 2012 London Revival, with Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, better as known for his role as the professor Umbridge, in Harry Potter series. The costumes was designed by Anthony Ward, a very reconocido british theatre designer.

In 2007, Tim Burton directed the film adaptation of this musical, with Johnny Depp, and Helena Bonham Carter, and other english actors like Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.  The costumes for the movie was designed by Colleen Atwood, my favourite costume designer.

 

This is my favourite musical because I like the songs very much, are wondeful, and the costumes are one of my Colleen Atwood's favourite. Also, the story is a part of comedy and a part about drama, and got a bit of gore, a great mix :)

My future job

In the future, I would like to work in costume design, especially in England or Australia. I want make designs for great plays, movies and television. I wanna do this because I think that places are the best for this kind of design, and in that countries are the better and most famous schools of theatre in every kind. I would like to work in animation too and design the costumes for stop motion characters, and work with great creators like Aardman animation studios and thier famous characters like Morph, Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

I don't prefer between indoors or outdoors, I would like to work in a bit of both. Also I would love to travel in this job, and know and look for more references around the world and know many places like museums, theatres and houses.

I don't think that I would use an office, I would prefer a room with a sewing machine and a desktop where I can draw and do the design sketches.

Sometimes I think in write a book, because I have many ideas that I wrote in different notebooks in my room, but I never dedicate time for write them as a long story. I have many ideas, and I hope made a movie, or an animation at least, about one of them.

A Photograph!

I found this picture in flickr the last semestre, and I love it!
It shows the city of Edinburgh, in Scotland, cover of snow, a couple of days before christmas, and was taken by Alasdair McIntosh, a british photographer.

I would like to live in this city one day, so it shows me the beautiful it can be.
I like the contrast of the colours, between the twilight and the city. I love the architecture. I think that the picture shows the essence of th city on winter. I love this season, especially in countries of Europe, cause the landscapes are very different that Chile, and I love the snow and the cold days.

This picture reminds me Charles Dickens books, maybe for the old buildings along with the snow, beautiful stories like Little Dorrit or Great Expectations.

Cause that books are some of my favourites, this pictures reminds me that, and I hope live in there place one day.
Simply: I love this picture! <3