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Characters from Plays

Descriptions for characters from plays with detailed analysis, suggested audition pieces, part size, vocal part and video examples.

Characters from Plays
CHARACTER

Mr. Purgon

Featured

The Imaginary Invalid

  1600s france doctor physician quack proud self-important self-serious temperamental sensitive childish wrathful dramatic  petty 

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CHARACTER

Thomas Diafoirus

Featured

The Imaginary Invalid

  1600s france son nephew fiancé student doctor physician grinning bewildered oafish witless dull vacant obedient 

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CHARACTER

Argan

Lead

The Imaginary Invalid

  1600s france father husband hypochondriac fool sickness health illness worried self-pitying obstinate foolish melodramatic cheap self-centered temperamental blind gullible taken advantage of comedic star vehicle male 1m 2f scenes  2m scenes 

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CHARACTER

Angélique

Supporting

The Imaginary Invalid

  1600s france late teens ingenue daughter sheltered in love determined in need distraught grieving faithful romantic innocent blossoming first love beautiful genuine dutiful respectful loving devoted 2f scenes 1m 2f scenes 

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CHARACTER

Mr. Diafoirus

Featured

The Imaginary Invalid

  1600s france father brother physician doctor pompous stuffy humorless know-it-all self-important oblivious  foolish 

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CHARACTER

Chorus

Ensemble

The Imaginary Invalid

  chorus 1600s france interlude featured gypsy staff doctor apothecary legit ballet  classical 

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CHARACTER

Gwendolen Fairfax

Supporting

The Importance of Being Earnest

  fashionable cosmopolitan sophisticated intellectual pretentious absurd victorian british dialect rp dialect self-conscious vapid image-conscious elegant comic 

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CHARACTER

Algernon Moncrieff

Lead

The Importance of Being Earnest

  charming idle vain decorative bachelor frivolous brilliant witty selfish amoral paradoxical inventive fastidious imaginative flittish duplicitous british dialect rp dialect ostentatious over-educated 

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CHARACTER

John (Jack) / “Ernest” Worthing, J.P.

Lead

The Importance of Being Earnest

  responsible respectable conservative old-fashioned guardian straight serious duplicitous disguise double life orphan british dialect rp dialect 

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CHARACTER

Lady Augusta Bracknell

Supporting

The Importance of Being Earnest

  mother gorgon tyrant aunt domineering opportunist insistent comic cunning narrow-minded stubborn opinionated judgmental authoritarian 

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CHARACTER

Reverend Canon Chasuble, D.D.

Supporting

The Importance of Being Earnest

  rector clergy romantic kind obliging cheery forgiving flexible 

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CHARACTER

Lane

Featured

The Importance of Being Earnest

  manservant butler straight dry complicit knowing comic 

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