“Becoming acquainted with a part is a preparatory period in itself. It begins with one’s very first impressions from the first reading of the play” (Stanislavsky, 1989, 3).
Sebastian Speeds, my character who is best friends with David. I found my character very complicated until I had my character meeting with the director, my character developed immensely. The director and the writer wanted us, as actors, to write ten points about our character which will make the writer’s job easy for him and make the characters easy for us to understand because we made them up. Considering our show is about escaping from the serious issues which occur outside the record store, I wanted my character to be evolved around him being bisexual as it was still very much a big deal in the 1990s. My character developed as the script was developing. My character developed into being juvenile and comes across as daddy’s boy and very spoilt. We spoke about watching Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em and Little Britain within fleshing out a character in which we created key moments within Sebastian’s life. With this Sebastian’s backstory began to surface;
- Sebastian Speeds
- Age 22
- Spoilt
- Has a crush on his best friend, David
- Follows his heart without thinking twice about it; he thinks he is doing the right thing to please others, but he ends up emotionally hurting them
- Jealous
- Childish
- Wants everybody to know that he has a special relationship with his dad
(Bowe, 2017)
Within having such a great character, having the character meeting with Emily was necessary and extremely beneficial, by looking into Sebastian’s given situations, I started to bring my character together.
Works Cited:
Bowe, K. (2017) Character. [image] Lincoln Performing Arts Centre: Kick A Pigeon Theatre.
Stanislavsky, K. (1989) Creating a role. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic.