Inspector Hound Update

Getting the costumes organized and finalized was no easy task, but it was fun and doable. Finding Sydney a costume was difficult. She was playing Felicity and she needed to be in a white tennis skirt and a white shirt the whole time. Lydia and I decided to add a sweater tied around her neck to make her look more "preppy". This is her finalized look:

Working with most of the cast was fun, but it's also hard to please everyone at the same time. So, we bumped heads a couple times, and had to change things per request of Ms. Hargreaves, which almost always improved the costumes. Working with someone else while designing costumes or set or even makeup, is always challenging because of differences of opinion. For example, I may have wanted to have Sydney wear a green sweater when Lydia wanter her to wear a red one. But eventually, we must all work together and coincide - therefore Sydney wore a grey sweater.

Beatrice had only one problem to fix and that was her cleavage, which I nearly forgot about until about five minutes until she needed to be on for opening night. I just pinned the inside of her dress so that the safety pin wasn't showing and it still covered her cleavage while still having the desired effect of a seductive woman. Here is her final look:

Mei was easy because all she needed was a LOT of makeup to complete her look:

Xan had to wear A LOT of clothes. He wore a dress shirt, a sweater, a cravat, a jacket, dress pants, and dress shoes. His character was meant to be very smartly dressed and also be the "romantic interest" of the play, so we wanted to give him a romantic feel.

Luke and Jared (playing Moon and Birdboot - theatre critics) were dressed similarly, with Jared dressed a little fancier than Luke, who was a less dignified, serious character. Jared wore a suit, with an older jacket to make him look a little stuffy, and Luke work a dress shirt, a tie, a jacket, jeans and dress shoes. They both looked great (in my opinion).

Garage had to look like an old man in a wheelchair, so we dressed him in dress pants and shoes, a dress shirt, an older grey sweater, and a scarf. He was very convincing.

Nandi's costume was a bit more complicated (she was Inspector Hound). She wore brown pants, a brown belt, rain boots, pool floaties, a tie, a jacket as similar as possible to a trench coat, a slightly baggy dress shirt and a construction helmet. It turned out well though.

I was very grateful to have a backstage experience instead of being on stage. Although I love acting, I think it's important to explore every aspect of theatre as to get a getter understanding of how everything works. Now, every time I go to a production, I'll be thinking of how much hard work gets put into costumes, makeup, set and lighting as I experienced it all during rehearsals and finally, performance night.