Patravadi Party

The Patravadi Theatre is a beautiful space for performing arts in Bangkok. Today I was making costumes there. The premise of the play I was working on based on the lack of abstinence and promiscuity amongst some Buddhist monks in contemporary Thai society.



In the play, some nuns are given the role of seducing the monks. For this project I made two petticoats out of muslin and a red chiffon enmeshed with natural twine. The nuns uniforms are white. The redness of the petticoats, which were just visible, were to represent the desire beneath the surface.