I helped Daan out with costumes for his drama students’ play.  They put on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which was the kids’ choice.  It’s about the Salem Witch Trials, but was actually written to spotlight the witch hunts for Communists, occurring in Congress, during the 1950’s.  Every local 11th grader reads The Crucible in their English class.  I did too, many moons ago.

My part of the production was the making of the female caps – girl caps and woman caps, and the loan of my spinning wheel, and one each of my feast gear mugs and bowls.  Here’s some of the caps in fuzzy action:


Girl caps.

(Click to enlarge) Girl caps testifying.  If this class ever does The Crucible again, I suspect I will volunteer to make judge wigs and parson hats.

The cast, badly lit.

(Ithink they should do it again – they’ll get more audience with more exposure, and they’ll get better costumes and Stuff.  Not to mention that a heavy play is a huge improvement on the light comedy that they usually foul up the timing on.  Neither timing nor precise delivery is essential for Heavy Social Commentary.)

Not that you couldn’t tell from their individual acting performances who was who – they did very well – but every little bit helps, and the kids were very grateful for the female caps.  Even if they did pull half the chin-ribbons off.