The Me Nobody Knows: Costume Design Let Me Know

Costume Design Let Me Know
As an individual, one of the most essential factors that a person needed to consider himself is his personal view of how he depicted himself in various circumstances. Ghetto children from The Me Nobody Knows also consider themselves in their personal views of they depicted themselves in the society. The beginning scene which all of the characters were sitting on chair impressed my mind, caught my attention and sparked my interest to watch the play because of costume design. Ghetto children saw themselves the bottom-level people in the society. However, they wanted to break and change this kind of lives with hope. This paper gives an analysis on costume designer Robert Croghan’s work in helping explain the theme of
The Me Nobody Knows wants to convey to us through choice of costume color, clothes and fabrics.
In The Me Nobody Knows at the Clarice, choices made by Robert Croghan, who was the costume designer gave me a more elaborate view of how the characters see themselves through choice of costume color.
Robert Croghan used a lot of bright colors like orange, pink on actors’ costumes. He successfully used his determination to ensure that all the costumes used in the piece were extremely outstanding and fitting to one characteristic that all characters have in this play, which they were very young-aged inner-city American youth. For example, character William wore Pink shirt with blue jean. Those bright colors implied that he was a very young, energetic and a little bit reckless youth when he sat on the chair at the beginning of this play. Those characters just had their first time to see the world, so they could see themselves through others’ eyes. However, they saw themselves were just ghetto’s children by misunderstood through others’ eyes. From Robert Croghan’s used of such skills and expertise in designing, I was made to understand implied information through costume
design.
In addition, costumes chose or designed by Robert Croghan brought out the main points of the actors in The Me Nobody Knows and created some of the best performance analysis on the actor. In fact, as a result of the excellent designs by Croghan, the actors were able to achieve their objectives in acting and greatly bring out the ideas that director has presented in the play. For instance, by designing character Rhoda’s costume in a femininely attractive way by wearing a long pink flower dress, it expressed Rhoda wanted to break free her difficult life. She was still looking forwards to the bright side of her life or change in life with hope because flowers were usually positive thing in life. Croghan explored his skills that everyone could get implied meaning by his exemplar abilities in designing the best costumes in the whole play.
The fabrics of the attires that were designed by Croghan worked out so well in making sure that costume design conveyed the theme of the play successfully.
Croghan mainly chose cotton fabric for t-shirt and denim fabric for jeans as character Carlo’s costumes. It was an appropriate choice because Carlos in this play was a youth from the ghetto based on his age, financial level and family. The reason he wore a white cotton t-shirt, because Carlos was from the ghetto and he could not afford expensive clothes. Cheap white cotton t-shirt would be the best costume fitting with his background. He saw himself was a poor child from the ghetto and the bottom-level people in the society. However, his denim fabric jean meant he had hope in his life. It was because he still tried to wear better clothes in his life no matter his economic level would not allow him. Therefore, denim fabric stands for an expectation of better life with hope. As a third year MFA candidate, Corghan ensured that he exploited his full potential in ensuring he utilized his designing skills by following theme and making the play
success.
The designs that were made by Robert Croghan were some of the most successful ones that helped in making the play efficacious. The choice of costume color, clothes and fabrics successfully conveyed that ghetto children wanted to break and change this kind of lives with hope although they were currently just bottom-level people in the society. From the play, costume designer Robert Croghan exceptionally awesome and helped a great deal in working out to convey the theme and make the play a success.