Tacked to one wall of the costume shop \u2014 next to a rack holding hundreds of colorful thread spools, are some of Farrell\u2019s sketches of costumes, including Dogberry, a bumbling constable character, and several period archetypes of rural and coastal Maine: a hunter, a farmer, lobstermen, and a \u201csport.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n These characters, who comprise a kind of neighborhood watch in the play, are key to giving the play a Maine feel, says Farrell. In rural Maine, \u201cespecially at that time, people wore a lot of hats, literally. A lobsterman during the day might help the constable at night, that kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While a real 1945 Maine lobsterman might change clothes before his night job, in the play \u201cthere\u2019s an internal logic to why these people are watchmen and they look this particular way. And it gives us a chance to play with being in Maine in a fun way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the watch, the only out-of-stater is the \u201csport,\u201d a character that Farrell says harkens back to the early days of Maine tourism. \u201cIt was what the Maine Guides called the well-heeled people \u2018from away\u2019 who hired them. It was not a compliment, since the Guides had all the knowledge and did all of the work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He\u2019s definitely \u201cfrom away,\u201d as they say, \u201cup from Connecticut or Massachusetts or whatever, to experience the Maine wilderness,\u201d Farrell explains. \u201cThe Maine Guides would paddle them around and they could do their fly fishing from the special little seat in the middle of the canoe that has a back to it \u2014 the \u2018sport\u2019 seat \u2014 and the sport was paddled around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The modern-day equivalent would be a tourist who is intent on getting the shot \u201cfor the \u2019Gram.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n So Farrell\u2019s \u201csport\u201d wears impractical white boat shoes, plaid Bermuda shorts, a fishing vest, bucket hat, and a short-sleeve, button-up shirt emblazoned with more fish than the old sport has ever caught by himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo Mainer would be caught dead looking like this,\u201d Farrell laughs. \u201cBut it’s what the out-of-stater thinks he ought to look like when he comes to Maine to be an outdoorsman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fishing hat is a creative masterpiece in itself, festooned with mock fishing lures and flies, created by Adelle Welch \u201925.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the 1,800 or so students at Bates, Welch might be the very best person to create a fishing cap. She grew up in Livingston, Mont., a small city along the Yellowstone River that\u2019s home to the International Fly Fishing Federation museum, of all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a child, she learned to tie flies from her grandfather. \u201cI spent a lot of time with him in the summer on the river,\u201d says Welch, recalling his fly-tying setup and \u201call the fun feathers and stuff. They looked so cool.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n All that experience helps her bring authentic details to the faux flies, such as adding \u201clittle eyes to mimic nymph flies, which are the ones that live at the bottom of the river.\u201d Meanwhile, dry flies float on the top of the water. They\u2019re more decorative, made with \u201cfeathers and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Welch used a range of crafting supplies to create her flies, such as safety pins, string, fuzzy colored pipe cleaners, and ribbons \u2014 believable enough from a distance to catch an audience, hook, line, and sinker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fly fishing in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing?” See how Carol Farrell, costume shop supervisor, and Adelle Welch ’25 bring Shakespeare to Maine in this second “peek behind the curtain” of the production process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1422,"featured_media":151457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,14,11012],"tags":[12313],"class_list":["post-151456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-faculty-staff","category-student-life","tag-peek-behind-the-curtain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151456"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151762,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151456\/revisions\/151762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Carol](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/02\/230202_Costume_Shop_0377.webp\")
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