Costume narratives at the Banqueting House

A series of elaborate and beautifully detailed Baroque costumes were were commissioned by The Soane Museum to entertain guests at a special one-off fundraising evening held at the Banqueting House in October, and form part of a long-standing collaboration between the Museum, and Wimbledon College of Art.

Hilary Baxter, Theatre Course Director (acting) at Wimbledon College of Art, explains: “Wimbledon College of Art was delighted to have this opportunity to collaborate with The Soane Museum, providing an exciting challenge for its students. As early as March this year, over 80 students taking part on the Costume Pathways of the Theatre Course began making Baroque inspired costumes for the Museum’s charity event and devised narratives to be performed for one night only at Whitehall’s Banqueting House. The inspiration behind the project was to reinvent characters and the key events that happened in and around Whitehall during the seventeenth century.