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Furter, and has been staged on Broadway and in theatres throughout Britain. This costume design for the Oldham Coliseum production was made by Robert Jones, who was then the theatre's trainee designer on an Arts Council bursary. Jones, who had trained at Central School of Art, went on to work at the major British regional theatres, design for West End productions and for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, and create sets and costumes for theatres and opera houses in Europe and America. His design for Jeffrey Longmore as Frank N. Furter plays on the idea of <i>The Rocky Horror Show</i> as a film: the design is mounted on a backing of glossy black card and the edges of both paper and card are spray painted to suggest a film strip. The design is an amusing object in its own right, contrasting Dr Frank N. Furter's bulging muscles with the short skirt of the nurse's uniform, and uses a variety of media to indicate the desired effect of the costume, with a plastic mesh placed across the figure's legs becoming his fish-net stockings.","physicalDescription":"Design for Frank N. Furter showing a muscular transvestite in a short nurse's uniform. The figure in pen and ink and water-based paint with a photocopied head attached at an angle and painted. The legs of the figure overlaid with a black plastic mesh to represent fish-net stockings. A blue swatch attached in the upper right hand corner. The design is on  paper mounted on glossy black card, all edges of the design and card spray painted with a row of small squares, the design with grey-black, the card with gold. 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The musical was directed by Dion McHugh with costumes by Robert Jones and sets by Jenny Blincow.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Costume design by Robert Jones for Frank N. Furter in Richard O'Brien's musical <i>The Rocky Horror Show</i>, Oldham Coliseum, 1981","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"This object features as an illustration in 'Out on Display: A selection of LGBTQ-related objects on display in the V&A', a booklet created by the V&A's LGBTQ Working Group. First developed and distributed to coincide with the 2014 Pride in London Parade, the guide was then expanded for the Queer and Now Friday Late that took place in February 2015."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Re:Imagining Musicals, 15 October 2022 - 4 February 2024\n\nThe Rocky Horror Show\nDrawing inspiration from B-movies, The Rocky Horror Show is now an internationally recognised cult hit. Today, the sci-fi musical continues to tour, often with audiences dressing up and joining in. After premiering at the Royal Court Theatre’s upstairs studio space in 1973, a film version followed in 1975, retitled The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Tim Curry reprising his role as Dr Frank-N-Furter, a self-proclaimed ‘sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania’. More recently, openly transgender actress Laverne Cox played the role for a television tribute marking the film’s 40th anniversary.\n\nProgramme for The Rocky Horror Show, Royal Court Theatre\r\n1973\r\nDesigned by Brian Thomson\r\nMuseum no. BMT/10/TEMP/1\r\nGiven by Overtures: The Bunnett-Muir Musical Theatre Archive Trust\n\r\nOriginal London cast recording of The Rocky Horror Show\r\n1973\r\nDesigned by Brian Thomson\r\nMuseum no. BMT/2/1/2439\r\nGiven by Overtures: The Bunnett-Muir Musical Theatre Archive Trust\n\nCostume design for Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Oldham Coliseum\r\n1981\r\nDesigned by Robert Jones\r\nPen and ink, water-based paint, gold paint, crayon, photocopied\r\nmaterial and plastic mesh on paper, mounted on card\r\nMuseum no. S.1093-1982\n","date":{"text":"2022","earliest":"2022-01-01","latest":"2022-12-31"}},{"text":"12\r\nCostume design for Frank N. Furter in <i>The Rocky Horror Show</i>\r\n1981\n\r\nVisualising the anarchic style of the cult musical, this\r\ncostume design for Frank N. Furter combines a nurse’s\r\nuniform with fishnet stockings. The designer uses\r\nplastic mesh sheeting as a cloth swatch to indicate\r\nthe correct material required for the costume.\n\r\nMusical by Richard O’Brien, 1973\r\nOldham Coliseum\n\r\nPen and ink, water-based paint, gold paint, crayon, photocopied\r\nmaterial and plastic mesh on paper, mounted on card\r\nDesigned by Robert Jones\r\nMuseum no. S.1093-1982\n","date":{"text":"March 2009-September 2013","earliest":"2009-03-01","latest":"2013-09-30"}}],"partNumbers":["S.1093-1982"],"accessionNumberNum":"1093","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":1982,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN7598","2019LR5743","2019LV0849","2019LW9529"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-04","recordCreationDate":"2008-05-15","availableToBook":false}}