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Brotherston started his career designing for the film <i>Letter to Brezhnev</i> (1985) and has worked extensively across dance, theatre, opera, musical theatre and film. He is best known for his collaborations with choreographer Matthew Bourne and Bourne’s dance companies Adventures in Motion Pictures and New Adventures, where he is an Associate Artist. Their ground-breaking <i>Swan Lake</i> (1995) with male swans has received over 30 international awards to date, including a Tony Award for Best Costume Design. In 1998, Brotherston received the Olivier Award’s Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Matthew Bourne’s <i>Cinderella</i>, which was set during the Blitz. In 2005, Brotherston designed, co-wrote and co-directed <i>Les Liaisons Dangereuses</i> with Adam Cooper and has designed sets and costume for many national companies including the National Theatre, Scottish Ballet, English National Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Brotherston received the Ninette de Valois Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance in 2018 and has worked extensively throughout the UK with companies Kneehigh, Shakespeare’s Globe, Sheffield Crucible, Almeida Theatre, Northern Ballet, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Old Vic, Glyndebourne and Chichester Festival Theatre. He has also designed numerous productions for the West End including <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night,</i> <i>The Rise and Fall of Little Voice</i>, <i>Sister Act</i> and <i>Oh What a Lovely War</i>. In 2022 Brotherston was awarded an OBE for services to Dance and Theatre. ","physicalDescription":"Costume design by Lez Brotherston for Miss Hodge in Act 2 of <i>Design for Living</i>. Full length female figure, looking to viewer's left. She wears a yellow patterned blouse under a patterned wrap-over pinafore which is trimmed in red and falls short of a burgundy skirt. On top of this is a short, grubby blue apron, tied at the waist. She has a red cap with a bow at the front and red lipstick. The words 'Old Vic' are written in pencil in the top left corner of the paper. The character's name and 'act 2' are printed in black lettering on attached strips of white paper, running left to right to either side of the figure, and the play title is printed in similar lettering on another strip of paper, running up the paper from bottom to top, right. The design is drawn on a page from an art sketchbook, with holes from the spiral binding at left. 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