Costumes for a theatrical production that are in a style from the period of performance rather than that of a play's setting or time of writing.
doing Shakespeare in modern dress is not an original idea
as modifier this is a modern-dress production
Example sentencesExamples
- All they have done is put everyone in modern dress and keep the text the same.
- I found the impact more persuasive because the players wore modern dress.
- This is an updated take on the first of the Wagner Ring operas, with characters wearing modern dress.
- This is a modern dress production.
- Staged in modern dress, stripping away the patriotic fervor, Hytner's direction of the play emphasized the human costs of war.
- The first major use of modern dress for Shakespeare in the 20th century was in a production of Hamlet in 1920.
- The vibrant cast in modern dress hurl contemporary references, songs, slang and asides into Shakespeare's verse.
- His original productions were mainly modern dress, with small casts.
- The device which distinguishes the play from other such accounts is the sure-handed transposition of biblical episodes to modern dress versions.
- It presents the tragedy in modern dress with a minimum of props and fuss.