Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. The vignette play, Characters Behaving Badly, by Lindsay Price, asks college students to take a look at the idea of what it means to be “good” and “bad”, in addition to what it means to play a personality with whom they may not agree. Perfect for sophistication performances!
If you noticed a pockets on the bottom, bulging with cash, and nobody round, would you are taking it?
What’s the worst factor an individual can do? Is it homicide? Is it mendacity? Is it getting an A-? What defines “good” and “bad” behaviour? Can “good” individuals have “bad” ideas?
Let’s hear from the writer!
1. Why did you write this play?
Over the years, I’ve witnessed a variety of younger or scholar actors being reticent to tackle a “bad” character as a result of they felt it will replicate in their very own private character. “If I play a bad character, then I am seen as a bad person.” Which results in an amazing query: What does it imply to be “good” or “bad”? And who will get to resolve what’s “good” or “bad?” And there was my start line.
2. Describe the theme in a single or two sentences.
What does it imply to be “good” or unhealthy?” What does it imply to play a “bad” character.
3. What’s a very powerful visible for you on this play?
There’s a second when a personality holds up a pockets full of cash and asks the opposite characters and the viewers if they might take it in the event that they discovered it on the bottom. Would you?
4. If you would give one piece of recommendation for these producing the play, what wouldn’t it be?
It’s a vignette play so it’s simple to default to a blackout between each scene. If you take a look at the script, it’s particularly designed to keep away from that. Blackouts suck the life out of the drive and ahead movement of a play. Use choreographed transitions and music to maneuver from second to second.
5. Why is that this play nice for scholar performers?
Not solely are the characters nice for evaluation on this play, the query round what’s “good” and what’s “bad” is a wonderful subject for dialogue. How do your college students outline the 2?
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