Costume wise, we went through
several different ideas. We even
briefly considered setting our scenes in outer space after the characters
spaceship had crashed on a remote island similar to how they get stranded on a
remote island, but we thought this would be to hard to convey through our
costumes. Since Tootsie had a
connection with Playmakers, we decided to try and dress like the characters
would have been dressed like at that time since we had access to the costumes
and props in Playmakers. We were able
to pick out costumes that fit each characters position and how we wanted to
portray them. I was cast as Ferdinand
from act III, scene I and for my costume we decided to have my character be
really well dressed since he is the son of the king. So we picked out a nice shirt with a very fancy jacket to wear
over the shirt.
Obviously
in this scene, my characters motives are to earn Miranda for himself and he is
willing to do whatever it takes to achieve this. I want Miranda in this scene and express this by swearing to
heaven and earth that I love her.
Unlike Miranda, Ferdinand has seen many other people of the opposite sex
and this makes his love for seem more real than Miranda’s who may be in love
with him because he is the only man she has ever seen other than her father,
Prospero. Although it is evident that
she has feelings for him because she tells Ferdinand expressly against her
fathers wishes. The fact that Miranda
may not be as in love as Ferdinand does not bother him in the least because
according to him she is “so perfect and so peerless,” and “created of every
creature’s best.” (Bevington, 1545) The
obstacle Ferdinand faces in this scene to get what he wants is put in place by
Prospero. In order to get Miranda he
must toil through the task of carrying many logs and piling them up. But Ferdinand finds no displeasure in this
task because it is done for his love and even says that the mistress he serves
makes his labors pleasures. He is more
than willing to undertake this task and will not even allow Miranda to help him
throughout the scene.