SNOW FEVER

For Snow Fever, the director's vision was an abstract perception about the characters' as "imperfect, rusty, dented tin cans . . . on the shelf waiting for a good home." With this, the costume design concept aimed to use print/pattern, texture and contrast to develop a visual story of a rustic, unorthadox band of small-town, Montana misfits.

Each costume design featured a personal touch, as in a visual motif, to reinforce each character's central theme, like Brendan's barren tree tattoo representing his fear of abandonment due to an abstentee father and his fiance leaving him at the alter. In addition, the costume designs were an embodiment of the character's gradual emotional growth as in Lucy's sporadic mindset, shown via a mix of patches and applique, that matures into a focused disposition, via a single horse-inspired pattern/print.

Overall, to abstractly capture a group of quirky, cooky "tin cans" in Robert Caisley's modern karoke Christmas play Snow Fever, the use of holiday-inspired colors, complex print/patterns, rustic textures, varied contrast and personalized motifs were used to evoke each character's hidden wombs from their bitter past as well as their newfound friendship and camaraderie that will lead them into a hopeful new year.