Ali Maclaurin is a freelance designer and lecturer. She has practiced for over twenty years, particularly in physical theatre and young people's work, with companies such as Scottish Opera and Shadow Syndicate. Aoife Monks is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Actor in Costume.
At last a book on costume that truly answers the questions practitioners and scholars ask themselves on a daily basis. Monks and Maclaurin combine their intellectual and practical skills in a book which must surely rank as the most significant book on theatrical costume this decade. - Scott Anderson, Queen Margaret University, UK An important text to engage students in theoretical debate. - Anne Curry, Nottingham Trent University, UK