Costume Design, Mia El-Yafi

The two designs for the play Agamemnon are of the character Clymnestra, a loving wife who murders her husband. At the beginning of the play, she is reserved and amicable, represented by the chains on her first costume and the black veil that obscures her true emotions. When she murders her husband at the end of the play, her “shackles,” or the chains, are gone and she is stripped down to a simple sheer white dress splattered with her husband’s blood – the purest form of her true nature that had been repressed throughout the play.

Mia El-Yafi is a junior at Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She is a Tommy Tune nominated designer and has designed costumes for HSPVA’s productions of Hairspray, Top Girls, and Macbeth. She has previously published photography in the HSPVA photography club.