MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN at Belvoir, costumes by Alice Babidge

Mother Courage and Her Children opened on 4th June at Belvoir with Alice Babidge designing the costumes.

Please read what the reviews are saying:

“The costumes, by Alice Babidge, have a disturbingly immediate feeling – like the mismatched pieces came from a looted 2015 discount department store. It brings the story closer to home and closer to now.” Cassie Tongue, Time Out

“The costumes are dribs and drabs of clothing from today, all looking just a little past their best…The design not only creates the creeping sense that this kind of destruction and desolation could be just around the corner, but reminds that there’s really no such thing as peace time in this world, just people who find peace. For a time.” Ben Neutze, Daily Review

“In Alice Babidge’s costume design Mother keeps appearing in an array of pastel clothes that she has clearly had for sale and then, when winter comes and the war gets bad, puts on for warmth.” John McCallum, The Australian

“The set and costumes by Robert Cousins and Alice Babidge are also dutiful to the ideals of Brecht… the 11 strong cast, dressed in generic army camouflage, or charity shop cast-offs, evoke the play’s various scenarios using a meagre amount of resources” Maxim Boon, Limelight

“Alice Babidge’s contemporary costumes add an element of grunge.” Jo Litson, The Daily Telegraph

The play is on at the Upstairs Theatre until July 26, tickets available on Belvoir website. Photo by Heidrun Lohr