Character profile


The character I will mainly be playing in our devised piece is the young, jittery teacher in the boardroom scenes. Although we didn't give any of our characters different names, our personalities would be far different from ourselves.


I took inspiration from my character from the character Josh Maguire played in Future Conditional (the one in the orange tie and grey blazer) As you can see, he appears quite geeky and jumpy, something I want to show my character as being. I believe my character would be quite childish and pathetic in the way he speaks, almost as if he hasn't yet reached the proper maturity adulthood entails. I decided that my character would always be jittery. Whenever I sit in the meeting scenes I work on how I sit, with feet tucked under the chair, perhaps a little restless to emphasise my characters juvenile nature. However, trying to convey this restlessness was more difficult. I didn't really know what to do so I thought, maybe I should get up and make a cup of tea, or offer out a pen. I think a nervous laugh every now and again would sum my character up too. Being not completely sure about the others around him, not knowing whether to be forceful through fear of being shouted at.


When I decided I wanted to play a character like this in our piece, I always gained the impression that he would be a very young teacher, one that is new to the job and hence, whilst in the meeting is skittish and not completely comfortable in his surroundings, after all, he barely knows the people he is speaking with and perhaps feels a little nervous. He is threatened by the strong personalities in the meeting room.