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Helen Lyster

(she/her)
CUMTS Welfare Rep 2024-5
CUADC Designers’ Rep 2025-6

big fan of embellishment

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CAST 2025: Macbeth – Co-Costume Designer

13:00, Thu 19th June 2025 at Town and Gown Theatre

We are excited to announce our touring production of Macbeth, supported by CAST and Cambridge in
America. As a company we have worked to foreground reproductive anxieties latent in the text,
contextualizing Macbeth’s ‘fruitless crown’ in the wake of a recent and painful still-birth, which in turn
sharpens Lady Macbeth’s famous reproductive language: ‘take my milk for gall’; ‘I have given suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me’. The detailed medieval costume against the paired back set places primacy on the actor rather than our ever changing stages, aiding in the flexibility of our production and retaining the all important ‘emotional blocking’ at the core of our affective vision.

Macbeth is the 25th CAST production to travel America, following the success of last year’s Julius Caesar. CAST aims at spreading Shakespeare far and wide, both as an educational introduction to the infamous bard, and to stretch and stimulate new discussion among those already acquainted with his works, and Macbeth specifically.

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  • A Breakfast of Eels – Costume Designer

    19:00, Tue 27th – Sat 31st January 2026 at Corpus Playroom

    “To love. To be loved. Difficult things”.

    In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy’s funeral, and two orphans find themselves…

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