Character Work
The craft of inhabiting a distinct person on stage — physicality, voice, point of view, emotional life — as opposed to playing yourself in a funny situation.
Known for
- Annoyance and Second City curricula emphasize character work more than UCB's game-focused approach.
- Built from the outside-in (physicality, voice, walk) or inside-out (emotion, mantra, POV) depending on school.
- A strong character solves most scene problems: the scene is the character reacting, not the character inventing.
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