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Bottom (Possible Character Background)

Bottom (Initial Character Background)

In this portrayal of A Midsummer Night's dream the Mechanicals (Bottom, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling and Peter/ Petra Quince.) are to be portrayed as bin men, mirroring the original text where they are portrayed as the working men of Athens.

For Bottom I am drawing inspiration from Certain performances of Working class people, for example I'm drawing an up an idea from the sitcom of Come Fly With Me from David Walliams performance as a baggage handler.

 

Certain aspects can be taken from his performance as well as the costume that both Walliams and Matt Lucas use for the baggage handling sketches. Walliams uses a loud non-articulated voice which is slightly monotone which I feel would be A good choice for Bottom as he is a brash yet slightly dull character in how he speaks. Much of the costume can be taken from this too e.g the high visibility jacket and possibly the gloves that Matt Lucas is using in the picture above (right).

Some grime might be good to add to the character to give an idea that Bottom has just come back from work before Unit 5 as it is set in a pub (to be cont. in Unit 5 entry)

Blogs contents

Blog Contents Page

·         Work out Character’s given circumstances, evidence from text/approaching script

·         Who am I?, auto biography, diary etc.

·         What time is it? Each season 21^st July English Summer awful weather e.g  weather resembles Winter season, Cold due to spite between characters

·         Where am I? Each scene you’re in

·         What surrounds? Objects, scenery, people, view

·         Relationship between the things/ people around you? Changes in how you stand work in posture attitude towards them through speech and physicality

·         What has happened before the scene has happened? Come into the scene with the correct energy, where have you come from?

·         What do I want? Objective, intention, motive (all scenes) How do I get what I want? To contain the seed of action

·         What is the obstacle? What is in my way? How can I avoid it? How will I express to myself of how I get round it?

·         How will I get what I want? Your action(same way all scenes) Play along with actions and tactics to motivate the piece