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Friday, 9 September 2011

How to write decent Character Notes

My Character:  Mickey Johnstone


Key Themes for this character: Love, Loyalty, Honesty and Family

As a Child: Age 7

  • Funny (I wish i was our Sammy monologue)
  • Excitable - plays gun/horse games
  • Voice - High pitched shows age with quickly spoken dialogue to show excitable nature
  • use of adult word and language 'pissed off'
  • Linda - drops her as his best friend when he becomes Blood Brothers with Eddie ' She's a girl but she's alright'
  • Innocent - imaginary horse, rides it like a western cowboy 'rough'.
  • Body Language - fidgets and plays with his clothes. Constantly moving around and 'itching' to do something.
As an adult: Age 19/20

  • Dark colours to show the change to darker times and themes in the play. Mickey made redundant and Linda pregnant and their struggle for money. Eddie home at Christmas - they argue and Mickey nearly punches Eddie.
  • Mood changes quickly as Mickey becomes involved with his brother Sammy and the raid on the bank - gets sent to prison.
  • Turns to drugs in prison - becomes a zombie and nothing like the Mickey the audience saw in the first act 'I need my tablets'
  • Tension between him and Linda as he wants to return to drugs. Linda looks to Eddie for help making Mickey jealous and suspicious.

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