For Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance, the second play by the Brandeis Theater Company this fall, costume design student Deirdre McCabe (GRAD) and the others working on the play faced a dilemma concerning design choices."We talked a lot about making the show accessible to contemporary audiences, and one of the ways we decided to kind of play on it, have some fun, was with these little pops of modern touches," McCabe said of the costumes, which contain many features appropriate for an 18th-century French play, but also incorporate bright colors and modern accessories like sunglasses. "Nothing's quite period-it's always breaking through into these interesting contemporary elements, which is kind of fun."

McCabe continued, "A lot of the color came out of almost the very first design meeting the group of designers had. We had this picture of a green wall-we kind of always knew that the set was going to end up being this bright green color, so all of the colors of the costumes were designed to pop off that green wall. There's also a black and white floor, so they also had to pop off that."

The play features largely graduate student actors and designers, although undergraduate actors, Anthony Rios '11, Viktoria Lange '13 and Rebecca Miller '13 have been cast, and Hannah Kaplan '10 will stage manage.

Beginning next Thursday, Nov. 12, the play will run through Nov. 22 in Spingold's Laurie Theater.