Post by DisneyFanatic on Oct 14, 2004 22:32:42 GMT -5
I just got cast in Into the Woods at my school as the mysterious man, it's a good part but i'm having trouble getting into the character and everything. It's getting there, i came up with a character history/interpertation that i thought i'd post and any feedback/suggestions/comments would be appreciated. Thanks! Ok, here it is (i realize i switch into the first person midway, bear with it):
ok, so this guy is the baker's father. When he was younger he was a baker too, but took joy in hunting in the woods and being adventureous and all that....ANYWAYS, he saw sneaking into the witch's garden like a fun adventure, but since he was caught and that was no fun he stole the beans just BECAUSE they were forbidden and wanted a sort of adventure. Anyways, the witch came and is all ugly,she takes the kid and kills the wife, i'm sad (like the baker in act II) and i leave him with a neighbour and go into the woods in remorse and then killed myself by hanging myself from a tree (Cinderella's mothers tree prehaps...the tree of dead parents...). But instead of doing the whole death process and moving on, my guilt held me back and i stayed in the woods as a spirit...thing and appear when people, primarily my family, needs help. I take joy in being mysterious, almost animal like (like the ones i hunted/observed) and i have energy because i'm not really alive. I "die" at the end of act one because my identity's been revealed and the mystery i took pride in dies, it's also a way of avoiding an unnecessary/impossible future relationship with the baker. That's why i come back in act II, because he needs help and i want to stop him from doing what i did
What do you think? It's kinda vague, but it gives the general idea.
(wouldn't it be great if sombody else from the cast read this and then at rehearsal thay'd say "I saw what you posted on the internet" AND I'D SAY...NEVERMIND, THIS THOUGHT IS ACTUALLY QUITE POINTLESS oops, caps lock...so, anyways, respond.)
ok, so this guy is the baker's father. When he was younger he was a baker too, but took joy in hunting in the woods and being adventureous and all that....ANYWAYS, he saw sneaking into the witch's garden like a fun adventure, but since he was caught and that was no fun he stole the beans just BECAUSE they were forbidden and wanted a sort of adventure. Anyways, the witch came and is all ugly,she takes the kid and kills the wife, i'm sad (like the baker in act II) and i leave him with a neighbour and go into the woods in remorse and then killed myself by hanging myself from a tree (Cinderella's mothers tree prehaps...the tree of dead parents...). But instead of doing the whole death process and moving on, my guilt held me back and i stayed in the woods as a spirit...thing and appear when people, primarily my family, needs help. I take joy in being mysterious, almost animal like (like the ones i hunted/observed) and i have energy because i'm not really alive. I "die" at the end of act one because my identity's been revealed and the mystery i took pride in dies, it's also a way of avoiding an unnecessary/impossible future relationship with the baker. That's why i come back in act II, because he needs help and i want to stop him from doing what i did
What do you think? It's kinda vague, but it gives the general idea.
(wouldn't it be great if sombody else from the cast read this and then at rehearsal thay'd say "I saw what you posted on the internet" AND I'D SAY...NEVERMIND, THIS THOUGHT IS ACTUALLY QUITE POINTLESS oops, caps lock...so, anyways, respond.)
