Abstract The act of knitting within the practice of performance costume design and making remains largely unexplored within scholarship and yet hand-knitted garments feature regularly as key items of characters’ costumes in stage, television and film productions. While providing a pleasing esthetic dimension to a production’s look as well as conveying feelings of comfort and domesticity, seeing a character knit on stage can also point to themes of mental breakdown and a character’s attempts to order their world. This article explores not only these thematic concerns within Clare Barron’s play You Got Older (2015), but how the act of designing and knitting costumes for a text-based theatrical performance can support actors’ work to highlight a play’s dialogue and writing. It also discusses how hand-knitted costumes and props can allow audiences to make sense of the symbolic and material worlds of a play and provides designers with greater insights into how the systems and processes of knitting can help to create and represent these worlds.

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从心理上解开：在表演服装中编织和你变老的主题（2015）

摘要 表演服装设计和制作实践中的针织行为在学术界仍未得到广泛探索，但手工针织服装经常作为舞台、电视和电影制作中人物服装的关键项目。在为作品的外观提供令人愉悦的审美维度以及传达舒适和家庭的感觉的同时，看到一个角色在舞台上编织也可以指向精神崩溃的主题和角色试图对他们的世界进行排序。本文不仅探讨了克莱尔·巴伦 (Clare Barron) 的戏剧《你老了》(2015) 中的这些主题问题，而且探讨了为基于文本的戏剧表演设计和编织服装的行为如何支持演员的工作，以突出戏剧的对话和写作。