Overview
Character Name
The Portress
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult, Elderly
Role Size
Featured
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
Earth, Unknown Time
Analysis
The Portress is the doorkeeper to the opera house. She is wrapped in a shawl that is supposed to hold all of humanity’s sorrows. The Portress was once a famous ballerina, now guarding the stage that she once danced upon. Her lover abandoned her and she spent 26 years
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