'play on' by rick abbot, character help
Fri, 25 Mar 2005, 04:20 pmDavid Gourley3 posts in thread
'play on' by rick abbot, character help
Fri, 25 Mar 2005, 04:20 pmhello all,
i have just been cast in our school play,
the play is called 'play on' by rick abbot, it is comedy farce about a community theatre group putting on the play 'murder most foul' by a first time writer who is letting them do it for free, but just days before opening night she keeps adding pages to the script and changes the entire plot of the play.
my character is that of billy, in the play he is stephen sellars.
i am finding it difficult to work out the type of character billy is, stephen sellars is a relatively easy character to play but im having trouble with billy.
if anybody has played this part, some sort of help would be much apreciated. or if you are familiar with the play.
thanks in advance
david
i have just been cast in our school play,
the play is called 'play on' by rick abbot, it is comedy farce about a community theatre group putting on the play 'murder most foul' by a first time writer who is letting them do it for free, but just days before opening night she keeps adding pages to the script and changes the entire plot of the play.
my character is that of billy, in the play he is stephen sellars.
i am finding it difficult to work out the type of character billy is, stephen sellars is a relatively easy character to play but im having trouble with billy.
if anybody has played this part, some sort of help would be much apreciated. or if you are familiar with the play.
thanks in advance
david
Re: 'play on' by rick abbot, character help
Tue, 5 Apr 2005, 09:00 amWalter Plinge
I directed "Play On!" a couple of years ago for Santa Clara Players www.scplayers.org, a small community theater in the San Francisco, California area. It was an adult production, but I cast a high school student to play Billy.
The way I looked at it, Billy is a young innocent, easily embarassed, who can't act his way out of a paper bag. As Billy, he spends a lot of time bumbling around. As Sellars he is wooden, all his gestures are exaggerated, and he pretty much yells most of his lines. And he experiments with posturing and Noble Facial Expressions.
Romantically, he has a huge crush on the ingenue, but she's the one who takes the lead
It's a fun show, and all of us in the cast and crew are still great friends. Have a blast!
-howeird
The way I looked at it, Billy is a young innocent, easily embarassed, who can't act his way out of a paper bag. As Billy, he spends a lot of time bumbling around. As Sellars he is wooden, all his gestures are exaggerated, and he pretty much yells most of his lines. And he experiments with posturing and Noble Facial Expressions.
Romantically, he has a huge crush on the ingenue, but she's the one who takes the lead
It's a fun show, and all of us in the cast and crew are still great friends. Have a blast!
-howeird