Costume frenzy - Stage acting

As some of you know, I'm a member of a theatre group, and once a year, we stage a play. For over half a year, we have been working hard on our roles - and on May 14th, we will perform the play for a small audience made up mostly of friends and relatives.

I'm looking forward to it with equal measures of delight and dread - will I remember all my lines? Will the audience have fun? Will I get in and out of my costumes fast enough??

Because for the first time ever, each of us has to change costumes for every scene - most of us play several roles, and we all now carry suitcases to every rehearsal, taking time on how long it takes us to change...

Costumes, costumes, costumes!
Since I was a child, I loved dressing up, slipping into another skin with a new outfit, a new make-up, a new hair-do or wig. And it is amazing how much a costume helps you to invent a character, and fill it with life! I've been taking pictures of our group now (I'm trying to make a little "book" with pics and character descriptions for each of us); and seen through the cameras lense, became aware of how much postures and facial expressions change according to the role. I hope we came a long way since we started rehearsing in terms of making the roles unique... and sometimes I wish for the time when I was a child, when being someone else was so much easier.

Wish us luck!