Hello Everyone!
So, in my Scene Study class the newest character that I have been assigned to play is a hilarious manipulative woman who has several nervous breakdowns onstage. It is from a play by Neil Simon called "The Good Doctor." It's your old-fashioned classic comedy! My professor informed me that the character called for a "voice"- meaning that the character needed an accent or an obnoxious exaggerated voice of some-sort to really emphasize her character type. So, I chose a Staten Island accent and I have been having a blast with it! My character has really grown over the last week and a half and she is annoying as hell!! I wear a knitted pancho and two really ugly shawls over it, and a tattered skirt, and the best part is the cat-eye glasses that I get to wear!
Don't get me wrong- I love tragedy and drama just as much as I love comedy, but there is just such a natural connection that I have to playing "character roles" (or funny, stereotype roles).
So if any of you get a chance to come and see the Scene Study final, you can come and see me play this hysterical role! The date of the final is Wednseday, May 13 in the evening.
Thanks again, everybody, for all of your constant and on-going support!
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Hey Molly,
ReplyDeleteGlad you're having fun! And it's nice to hear from you.
Annette
Molly!
ReplyDeleteOh my I can picture it now. Actually when you described the accent I thought of Marissa Tomei in My Cousin Vinni and the description of dress reminds me of this cross dresser whose always on the television in Italy with a huge mop of pinkish blue hair and an even bigger outlandish personality. Very obnoxious. Maybe you can look up some of that stuff for reference? I don't know the persons name in Italy so maybe that would be impossible but va bene.
Hope all is well! Expect a postcard soon!!!!
Love! Elizabeth