My Character is called Chantelle, she is the stereotypical bitch character. However I wanted her to be a bit different to most bitch characters. I decided she would be a happy bitch. Sort of like she was living in her own world, in her own imagination.
In real life she is very mean to other characters in the play, however she thinks she is being nice to them, because in her world everyone loves her. But really she is alone, she doesn't have any close friends. She spends all her free time alone at home, listening to her parents argue in the background.
I got this idea from Wicked the musical. My character is similar to Galinda, she is the Good Witch of the South, everyone in Oz loves her. However as the musical continues and you meet Elphaba, who is knows as the Wicked Witch of The West, and Galinda is very mean to her, but she doesn't realise it.
At the start of this unit we where given stimuli of song lyrics and we had to make a scene based around them. The lyrics were from a song called Family Portrait by Pink. These fit well with my character so we made a piece using them lyrics as inspiration. I think giving my character family problems at home fit well, because she using her imagination to block out the pain. She fakes happiness so that people like her. I think deep down inside Chantelle knows that she is alone but doesn't want to admit.
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