"This is not a love story" - costume comments

One of the outcomes of my volunteering involvement in the "Embody" performance was an invitation and a ticket to see another choreography performance on stage, this time as an observer. "This is not a love story" is from the famous Swedish choreographer Gunilla Heilborn which took place in Nottingham(10th Oct) and was co-producted also by Dance 4.
The capturing element in the scenario is that the play consists of only 2 characters, played by Johan Thelander and Kristiina Viiala, which normally prepares the audience for a love story, especially when they are a man and a woman. Unlike the expectations set,  the narration reveals a unique mind journey through memories presented with a great sense of humour.
Here's a link which Gunilla Heiborn has posted on her official website about the idea of the performance:
http://gunillaheilborn.se/wp-content/uploads/lovestory.pdf

Although the performance aimed to capture the observer's attention mainly with unrelated spontaneous questions, I managed to noticed some specifics of the stage costumes. The costumes definitely weren't on focus, mostly were just additionally framing the main idea.The actress' costumes were 2 - one on the first scene and one for all of the other scenes, during part of which was accompanied by a cardigan and a wig. The actor's costume were 3, accompanied by one boot(which mostly served as a prop) and also a wig.

These were the costumes from the first scene which were presented while the actress appeared on the stage was dragging the motionless body of the actor. In addition there were some sound and visual effect of a storm on the background. The bright contrast made from the flowers on the characters' shirts introduced the humorous approach of the whole play. In my opinion, this was the strongest impact achieved by the costumes throughout the whole play.

In the beginning the actress and the actor are presented with similar shirt while afterwards their costumes remains with bright difference which follows the division of their journeys which are also delineate by their dances which often mismatch.The wigs and the cardigan illustrate the characters'change of personality during their travelling through history.





References:
Gusztáv, V., n.d. [digital image]. Blogspot. Available at: http://dancescript.blogspot.co.uk/ [Accessed 07.01.2014]
Johnson-Small,J., n.d., 2013. [digital image]. BellyFlop Magazine. Available at: http://bellyflopmag.com/reviews/gunilla-heilborn-this-is-not-a-love-story [Accessed 07.01.2014]
Bohlin, St., n.d., n.d. [digital image]. Loco World. Available at: http://www.locoworld.se/agency/gunilla-heilborn/this-is-not-a-love-story/ [Accessed 07.01.2014]