In the play, Hunter is from the Australian Outback! G'day mate! So the fur hat was definitely out. I researched Hunters in Australia from the late 1700's. Wide brim hats were a popular choice. I originally planned to add gator teeth to decorate it with his hunting trophies but as discovered in the play, he's a fraud and has never killed an animal! I love story telling with costumes more than anything, so no extra accessories and leaving his clothes free from distress hinted at his performative nature. As our protagonist putting him in red draws our attention to him, he's also hot headed. But the brown and green help ground him as a character. We follow Hunter's story, he needs to be less of caricature than our comic counterparts. Such as...

Robber was the character I was most excited to costume and is up there with one of my favorite design. I always say I'm a lover of ugly costumes and this is what I mean (although he turned out beautiful). Robber is a theif. But beyond that he speaks so specifically, fancy, silver tongued, and gentlemanly. I strayed far from the card with this one, because if I know one thing. It's that Robber needs a purple top hat. I needed none of robbers clothes to match, preferably they'd clash. My favorite touch was this exquisite jacket I found with a dramatic golden "A" stitched on it. None of the characters have last names, this is clearly not Robber's jacket and he could not care less how obvious that is.

Dipple was incredibly fun to costume. She is a wonderful twist on the girl next door trope. Dipple works as a farmer, she specifically runs a horse stable. She's a working girl, and our stereotypical beautiful love interest. Oh yeah she's also a Doppelgänger (a shapeshifter). In the card game Doppelgänger is blue with darker blue stripes, I wanted to call to that with her skirt. Dipple was fun to costume because I thought of her as a fashionable woman. The pink peasant blouse read as vaguely period as the rest of the costumes and paired nicely with her skirt. Her brown boots alluded to her work (if we had a bigger budget I'd put her in riding boots). I felt like Dipple would look nice in silver jewelry, I gave the actress, Zoe Prue, a floral locket and told her to put whatever she wanted inside. She drew one of Dipple's horses. Not seen by the audience, but a special touch for the actress to make the character feel real. A costume should service the actor just as much as it serves the audience and story!

Troublemaker's design in my head pretty squarely matched with her card. A sassy, flirty, bar wench only goes so many ways in my mind! Her skirt is the same color as Seer's (Troublemaker's mom) dress to tie them together a bit. Troublemaker dresses to attract rather than for comfort. As seen by her pointy witch boots and choker. My favorite touch was the giant mug on her hip. This show is so campy, I wanted everyone to feel cartoonish in their design. She works at a bar so of course she has a mug even though its not used!

Minion is a very secretive potions master. Putting them in practical clothing with lots of little bags, potion bottles, and do-dads felt apt. But if you noticed... those potion bottles are empty... Huh! 

Drunk is SPOILER ALERT! Revealed to be a lumberjack who's lost his memories. The suspenders and work boots were a subtle enough touch to make sense once that was revealed while not being over the top enough to be suspicious of. The tricky thing about Drunk's costume was the switch-a-roo from Drunk into Doppelgänger posing as Drunk. I needed a matching costume for them. Drunk's shirt was decided by whatever fitting shirt I could find a double of. I got super lucky finding Dipple a matching pair of pants. And the suspenders tie it all together!

Tanner works as a leathersmith and tanner. And is generally pathetic and sad all the time! Putting him in an off white button up made him appear grimy on stage, work shoes and pants of course. But what tied this costume together was all the leather accents. He always has scraps of leather tucked into his pockets. And of course his leather bucket hat, that not only shows he's skilled at his craft. But it's just such a sad sillouette that really adds to the shape lanuage of their costume.