All about Eve

Millicent's costume

Our production designer is internationally award-winning Eve Oakley. We asked her about her work on Across the Square.

 "The play presents a wonderful challenge for design: how to convey the scale and complexity of such a turbulent period in history, distilled into a single interior location - Millicent’s front room at 2 Gower Street. Yet as the script reaches far beyond those walls, the space I created needed to feel both domestic and expansive.

In creating costumes for Ottoline and Millicent, I have been able to draw on many archival photographs and some of Ottoline’s garments that survive to this day. It has been a joyful process of recreating pre-existing items whilst having the creative freedom to dream up new details to bring these two distinct and sharply contrasting women to life.”