Ashland, OR: The Good Person of Setzuan

Here's costume designer Smaranda Branescu on her costumes for The Good Person of Setzuan, directed by Penny Metropolus, which opened in February at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Branescu points out that the concept for the design reflects the combination between the historically fable-like and the strong realistic social quality of the play:

"We placed the play between the 1940s and 50s in a retroactive way, in the way a Chinese person would view the Western world, or a longtime immigr