Sometimes there’s enough drama in real life to fill the pages of many plays. Just in my acting class, for example. There are at least 2 love triangles, constant homosexual undertones, a lot of nerves being strummed like guitars, buttons being pushed… And we only have 10 students and 1 amazing professor in the class. That’s why people are so interesting and why I am going to make characters this summer. I will cast the characters, like actors, into new plays.
The following is an example: (Male 1, thus far unnamed)
- Appears extremely confident, almost to a fault
- Good-looking, smooth-talking
- Possesses an initially undecipherable vernacular that inevitably gets picked up by others
- Labeled as the “jerk” or “asshole”
- Contains a great humanity about him, compassionate when necessary
- Reads and understand people very well
- Finishes other people’s sentences in his mind
- Quick to judge and characterize
- Faster to act than to plan/organize, sometimes rashly
- Very enthused about things he is definitely passionate about
- Medium tolerance for alcohol
- Generally apathetic to very specific things (TBD)
- Question: Is he deeply insecure about something?
- Question: What is a flaw about him that will allow us to fall in love with him ? Right now he mostly angers us.
- Question: In a play, do we want to root for him or love to hate him?
