It's Queen Victoria! There is a prelim for this which, paging back through the blog, i see i didn't share back when i drew it. Maybe i'll post it later for comparison.
I did share the quick sketch i did of Shrek's Lord Farquaad, a fairly well-known short-statured character played on the actor's knees. Queen Victoria is another one of those. In Shipwrecked!, part of the play's structure calls for all roles to be played by the same three actors, so the production team has to find a way to have a male actor play this role believably, comically, or both. Knee-walking to evoke Victoria's short stature is the way we're going. She'll be played by a male actor who stands over 6' tall, so he'll have kneepads on and become little short roundy old Victoria.
Another challenge with this costume is, it's a super fast quick change, so the whole transformation has to happen super-speedily. The wig/veil/crown will be constructed-in-one as a headdress, and the body padding/bustle structure/gown will also be all connected together as well (though separable for cleaning purposes). I'll probably be writing up the production process on this garment over in La Bricoleuse once we begin construction, because it's going to be so intricate and interesting.
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