Making it up for stage and real-life dramas

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Making it up for stage and real-life dramas

Ngaire Taylor
Ngaire Taylor in costume and stage make-up

Ngaire Taylor, a community pharmacist who has co-owned Bates Pharmacy Balclutha for more than 10 years, is an amateur makeup artist for local theatrical productions, and she also appears on stage, herself, from time to time. She talks to reporter Angela Woods about her accidental start in stage make-up, faking gory injuries for training exercises and getting actors into character by changing their look

How did you get into make-up for stage productions? I joined the local theatrical society when I moved to Balclutha and the make-up person was shi, Christina Taylor, Ngaire’s daughter Christina Taylor made up as an accident victim for a Clinton and Waiwera South Volunteer Fire Brigade training exercise