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ostumes add an important element to any production;
they can help develop characters’ personalities as well as
the setting of the story. The person taking on the task of
creating the costumes for plays here at Clackamas Com
munity College is Alva Bradford.
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Bradford has lived in the Oregon City area her whole
life«and attended Portland State University. She was involved in theater
all the way through high school and college. She mainly worked behind
the scenes with sets and costumes. Bradford began to realize her love for
costume design during college.
Bradford started her career in costume design with modern dance com-
: panies. Creating costumes for dancers rather than actors is extremely
different.
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“It’s sort of interesting with modern dance because you have to make
sure that everybody can turn upside-down, roll around on the floor, and
in comfort and movability,” she explained. Later down the road, when
she had started working for Clackamas Repertory Theatre, she brought
some of her favorite designs to life. The costumes were for the play
“Carousal” in the Backyard of Heaven scene. Although she loved the
costumes for that play, the play she enjoyed the most was “A Christmas
Carol.”
“We were really inventive on having costumes transform into something
else and that was really fun,” she said. Currently she is working on the
costumes for the play “Dead Man’s Cellphone,” playing at CCC Nov. 13-
23.
“We do a lot of research and think about who the characters are when
- deciding what they should wear,” Bradford said.
Expect more good work from Bradford. Her creative, yet soft-spoken
personality makes her a perfect in any producation.
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