Costumes

One of the stories covered in Shuddersome: Tales of Poe is The Masque of the Red Death. In this story, guests at a masked ball are overcome by the dread “Red Death”, a disease that is spreading throughout the land. The death is marked by sudden bleeding from every orifice. The premiere production (Listowel District Secondary School) solved this problem by making double-sided masks. The plain white side is the side the guests wore at the beginning, then the masks were flipped to reveal the bleeding on the other side. Here’s a photo and some video showing how it’s done: I love this simple and theatrical solution!