Character Descriptions from Musicals, Plays and Operas

Lead

The Designated Mourner

  professor husband bitter narrator monologues embittered contemporary nervous breakdown resentment survivor recovery son-in-law 

Supporting

The Designated Mourner

  father monologues contemporary executed intellectual dissenter critical outspoken intelligent writer poet essayist academic dazzling  killed 

Supporting

The Designated Mourner

  wife monologues contemporary intellectual smart witty daughter subtle charming encouraging death killed  arrested 

Lead

Desire

  friend 1m 1f scenes 2f scenes exuberant vibrant witty confident contemporary 

Lead

Desire

  boyfriend handsome fashionable confident contemporary 2m scenes 1m 1f scenes dark disparaging highly sexed 

Lead

Desire

  beautiful dissatisfied uncertain disillusioned 1m 1f scenes contemporary girlfriend searching 

Lead

Desire

  insecure flatmate naive boyish desperate searching 2m scenes 1m 1f scenes contemporary 

Lead

Desire Under the Elms

  son youngest son farmer lover vengeful begrudging hostile envious sly small wiry grieving festering angry bitter spiteful passionate unpredictable cutthroat cunning intelligent fierce repressed dynamic old new england dialect  1m 1f scenes 

Lead

Desire Under the Elms

  father patriarch farmer laborer farm owner land owner god-fearing hardened angry brutal unforgiving taskmaster long-suffering burdened woeful lonesome lonely aging stubborn self-important beleaguered reticent cruel  old new england dialect 

Supporting

Desire Under the Elms

  son second son middle son farmer laborer stubborn simple worker rebellious bitter resentful earthen broad-bodied muscular tall uncomplicated unsophisticated frank natural homely shrewd practical unresigned  old new england dialect 

Supporting

Desire Under the Elms

  son oldest son farmer laborer quiet simple worker widower grounded earthen broad-bodied muscular tall uncomplicated unsophisticated frank natural homely shrewd practical unresigned  old new england dialect 

Ensemble

Desire Under the Elms

  new england farmer fiddler sheriff landowner townsperson partygoer ensemble  old new england dialect