Overview
Character Name
Nigel Bottom
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dramatic Function
Foil
Relationships
Dancing
Mover
Voice
Tenor
Vocal Range
High Note: A4
Low Note: D#3/Eb3
Vocal Technique
Belting
Time & Place
London, England, 1590s
Analysis
Early to late 30s. A sweet, sensitive, and slightly awkward aspiring playwright and poet. Nigel’s got talent: his work is is thoughtful, romantic, and genuinely good (in fact, Shakespeare seems to have stolen some of his best lines). Nigel is obsessed with Shakespeare’s
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