Elements of Theatre: Script/Text

Characters:

Extraordinary Characters--larger than life--kings, queens, etc.
They can be extraordinarly good, bad, or funny. They may also be a regular person with an exceptional personality or achievement.

• Nixon
• Creon
• Antigone
• Bright Girl

Representative or Quintessential Characters--represents a large group or type of people with real lives, good and bad combined in one person, well rounded characters.

• Dimitri
• Sergeant Tracey
• Jim
• Guard #1
• Ismene

Stock Characters--flat, not 3-dimensional.

• Tessie
• Jack Brennan
• Guards #2 and #3
• The Queen

Characters with a Dominant Trait--like stock characters, but more of a main character in the play, and more unique than stock characters.

• Officer Charles
• Swiftly
• The Nurse

Minor Characters--play a small part in the overall action of the action.

• Bernie
• Romey (teenage girl)
• Stanley (teenage boy)
• the mom
• the business lady
• Bob Zelmic
• Caroline (girlfriend)
• Waitress/Stewardess
• The Messenger
• Haemon

Major Characters--play revolves around them.

• David Frost
• Jim, the Narrator
• Richard Nixon

Narrator or Chorus--

• Jim
• Jack
• Swiftly
• The Chorus

Non-human Character--

• Louis or Louie