Veteran costumier comes out of retirement for Nell Gwynn

After more than 50 years dressing performers on stage and screen, Tauranga’s Alf Weston has come out of retirement to design the costumes in Tauranga Repertory Society’s newest production Nell Gwynn. “It’s a lot of fun. I quite enjoy community theatre,” said the 75-year-old.

“In a large professional production, I would be given a big budget to send people off to tailors and import fabric. On a smaller scale, you have to be so much more inventive and savvy.”

In fact, Weston laughingly admitted to scouring local ops shops for the right fabrics.

“At least four of the actors have been swanning about on stage wearing old curtains,” he said

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