Josh Mercado

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Vocal Interpretation and Performance
Character Analysis
Name of the Play
Name of the Character

WHO?
Age:
Health:
Family and social background:
Geographic birth and upbringing:
Mental condition:
Education:
Vocation:
Avocation:
Military experience: Financial Circumstances:
Essence:
How does that affect your thoughts, feeling, words, and actions?
WHAT?
What is the event in which you find yourself?
What happens in the course of that event?
How does that affect your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions?
WHERE?
Nation:
Region:
Indoors or outdoors?
Weather
Crowded or deserted
Urban or rural
Opulent or ramshackle
Public or private
Formal or informal
Pleasant or unpleasant
Familiar or unfamiliar
Safe or dangerous
Animate Nature

Inanimate Nature
Architecture
Furnishings
Mechanical Objects
Things you are using
How do those elements affect your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions?
WHEN?
How does that affect your thoughts, words, feelings, and actions?
WHY?
Why are you there?
What do you expect to happen?
What do you want to happen?
What actually occurs?
How does that affect your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions?
MOMENT BEFORE AND AFTER
Where were you physically and mentally before the scene?
Where do you expect to be?
Where do you want to be?
Where do you want to be after the scene ends?
How does that affect your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions?
WHO?
Who are the other people in the scene?
Who are the other people in the rest of the script?
How do you speak/behave to them?
How do you expect them to behave toward you?
Are you aware of their behavior toward other people?
How do you speak about them to others?
How do they behave toward you?
How do they expect you to behave toward them?
How does that affect your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions?