character details for devised theatre

1. the other tyke

2. changes:
• set in a circus
• more character-work
• everyone would be given a
single part and use it to
investigate their own
personality
• the storyline would be based
around the exploration of the
confines of each character’s
personality and life story

3. the Trapezees
circus
school
sweet
hearts
--------------------
confined by
their
relationship

4. emilia
• confined by image
• perfectionist
• cannot fathom the loss
of her husband

5. iago
• also confined by image
• ultra-masculine
• wants to live up to his
marriage, but…

6. the bearded lady
• confined by identity
• wishes people could
accept her/him (?) in
society just as

7. the man
• bound by money & power
• struggles between running the
circus and being a woman in a
man’s world

8. the ringmaster she’s the bitch
• bound by her duty to the man
• does whatever the man says and
neglects her own beliefs & ideas in
order to keep her job at the circus

9. the uncanny
clown
• bound by awkwardness
• struggles to make friends at
the circus & come up with an
act that makes sense and
laughter

10. the struggling musician
• bound by the notes on the page
• she only knows how to play what is
written for us and must learn how to
play from her heart

11. dezi
the elephant trainer
• bound by her job
• struggles to train tyke after
the previous trainer flipped
off the circus

12. tyke – the head
• bound by his mentality
• struggles to break free of the fear
that has trained him as a circus
elephant

13. “o”
tyke – the ass
the only one who is really free