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
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
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