Name: Cherry
Details: Aged 25-35, has been institutionalised for quite some time
Personal Qualities:
Possessive
Threatening
Impulsive
Violent
Jealous
Confident
Courageous
Competitive
Alert
Optimistic
Buoyant
Vivacious
Self confident
Energetic
Gossiper
Relationships/conflict
Between Cherry and Lewis. Cherry is instantly infatuated with Lewis more and more as time goes on. Cherry is desperate for love with Lewis. Cherry wants a relationship with Lewis, however, she treats him in a motherly way.
Between Doug and Cherry. Is a mutual dislike. She threatens to hurt him several times during the play. Doug treats Cherry much worse than the other mental patients.
Between Cherry and Julie. Cherry is very jealous towards Julie because Lewis shows Julie more romantic attention compared to Cherry who he is treats in a very appropriate way.
Motivation/goals: Obviously like most of the patients Cherry ultimately wants to leave the asylum but in the mean time Cherry’s motivation to continue doing the play is because she wants to end up with Lewis.
Emotional and intellectual growth: Cherry becomes very loyal towards the play, as well as being loyal to Lewis. At the beginning of the play Cherry only listens to Lewis however at the end of the play she is much bossier and takes instructions into her own hands.
Quotes:
“Why a woman’s heart would soften towards a man.”
“Go burn a cat.”
“Most women fight hard to keep men out of their pants. You may like being foolish, but most women are not.”
by Emily, Megan, Cassie & Cori
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Doug
*Pyromaniac
Personal Qualities:-Aggressive nature, threatening, dominant, volatile, rude, uncouth, coarse, criticising, disrespectful, frank, intimidating, sexually charged, mischievous, cheeky, rough.
Relationships:Doug has an unresolved problem with his mother, which makes for a poor relationship. He feels his ego has taken a severe battering from is mother, because, despite his age, she still treats him like a child. He felt he had to stand up to his mother to resolve the conflict.
Conflict:
Doug and his mother clearly didn’t get along. He was told by a doctor he had to resolve the conflict with his mother. He felt it necessary to do so by paying her back for treating him like a child. So one day he gathered her 5 cats and lit them on fire. His plan backfired as one cat ran into the house and burnt the house down. He was put into the asylum and still faces problems with his mother.
Motivation/Goals:
Doug merely longs for a personal connection with others, but how he speaks to people is his main barrier. He is determined from day one to burn the theatre to the ground. He lights small fires here and there and is eventually placed in a closed ward. Lewis taking over his role in the play wouldn’t have helped preventing Doug from trying to the burn the theatre down. A motivating factor for Doug was his anger, anger with his mother, with his world and angry with his lack of connection to the theatre. In the end we find the theatre was burnt down, Doug being the major suspect of course.
Emotional and intellectual growth:
As a person, Doug doesn’t mature a lot during the play. He kept to his ways of being cruel to those who he saw to be weaker than himself, often women, and he also remained an angry person because of a number of reasons. However, as he is articulate and perceptive, his intelligence enables him to manipulate both those in his circumstances and those around him, but he continues with the same emotional mindset throughout the play. Lighting fires was his only way to get his mind off his problem.
Key quotes associated with Doug:
-One main quote associated with Doug is, “Go burn a cat!” Used by at least 3 different characters throughout the play. It is so important because it relates directly and literally to the things he has done in his past. It is seen by the patients as the only way to hurt him deep down, because it triggers the memories of his mother.
-Doug’s main quote, coming under the theme of Love is; “(about Lucy) You said she was into free love didn’t you? Can’t get over it. you do this old fashioned opera-this is the era of free love and orgies.” This is typical of Doug’s mindset. He links love directly to sex, which links in to him seeing women as sexual objects.
-Doug’s main quote, coming under the theme of Fidelity is; “Women like to pretend they don’t play around, but they’re just more secretive about it. They don’t brag like men.” Doug tends to believe what he hears. Not knowing about Doug’s personal relationships with other women, readers are lead to believe this, because he would have little respect and trust in women, because of his mother.
-Doug is given a lot of one-liners in the play to provide a comedic side to it. These are suited to his character as he is seen to be a bit of a larrikin.
by Garrison & Callum
Henry
DETAILS:
Lawyer
40 – 50 years old
Plays Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte
Has been institutionalised for the majority of his life
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Passionate
Patriotic
Vulnerable
Nostalgic
Intelligent
Traditional
Baffled
Frustrated
Conservative
RELATIONSHIPS:
Wife, temptress – “my wife was like Dorabella” pg 64
Parents, father fought in the Korean War – “My fffffather fought in the war. For you and ffffor me. He was a gggreat man. You are traitors.” Pg 47
CONFLICT: With Nick in regards to views on Vietnam War.
GOALS: To perform in the play to the best of his ability.
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH:
Henry is a slow and almost insecure character
Shy- Becomes more confident
Child like – represented by soldiers
QUOTES:
Fidelity - “Whether woman can remain true is a ttttragedy” pg 49
Political views, Nick – “Traitors! Traitors! Traitors!” pg 46
Lewis, communism – “you make fun of us by making us communists.” Pg 48
by Blake, Nicole & Jess
Lawyer
40 – 50 years old
Plays Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte
Has been institutionalised for the majority of his life
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Passionate
Patriotic
Vulnerable
Nostalgic
Intelligent
Traditional
Baffled
Frustrated
Conservative
RELATIONSHIPS:
Wife, temptress – “my wife was like Dorabella” pg 64
Parents, father fought in the Korean War – “My fffffather fought in the war. For you and ffffor me. He was a gggreat man. You are traitors.” Pg 47
CONFLICT: With Nick in regards to views on Vietnam War.
GOALS: To perform in the play to the best of his ability.
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH:
Henry is a slow and almost insecure character
Shy- Becomes more confident
Child like – represented by soldiers
QUOTES:
Fidelity - “Whether woman can remain true is a ttttragedy” pg 49
Political views, Nick – “Traitors! Traitors! Traitors!” pg 46
Lewis, communism – “you make fun of us by making us communists.” Pg 48
by Blake, Nicole & Jess
Roy
PERSONAL QUALITIES: Outspoken, enthusiastic, control freak, selfish, delusional, passionate, demeaning, sarcastic and energetic.
RELATIONSHIPS AND CONFLICTS: Lewis and Roy have a bit of a love/hate relationship. Roy is friendly up until the point where Lewis makes a stand the Roy whinges. Roy: “We’ll be like Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin”. Lewis: “Roy!” Roy: “Hark! Adolf Hitler has spoken.”
Henry’s relationship with Roy is pretty similar. Roy is happy with Henry as long as he does what he’s told. He gets in to his whinging state when Henry doesn’t abide by what he says. He has no problem with hitting Henry into submission (p27).
Cherry is to strong willed to be dominated by Roy and hence he has no strong connection with her. As Cherry has strong feelings for Lewis and Roy isn’t a fan of Lewis’ directing they don’t really get along.
Zac is in direct conflict with Roy due to their musical interests. Roy is into Mozart’s music whilst Zac hates that kind of music and is interested with Wagner.
Nick is extremely liked by Roy due to his “directional ability” and prefers his methods to Lewis’ mainly because they follow Roy’s visions and ideas.
MOTIVATION/GOALS: Roy is driven by his illusions of the “perfect world”. Hence why he is so passionate about the opera and its success means everything.
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH: Roy remains the same from the start to the end. His delusions of reality don’t allow him to accept things as they are and hence why he remains in the asylum.
KEY QUOTES:
“We’ll be like Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin” (p3)
“Hark! Adolf Hitler has spoken” (p15)
“You can’t play the piano-accordion in Mozart!” (p25)
“Oh my god. My god! I’ve got it. Roy you’ve done it again!” (p39)
“Brilliant! Couldn’t put it better myself. Are you listening Jerry?” (p43)
“Love is what you feel when you have no emotion left to hate.” (p61)
“You’re alright, Jerry.” (p75)
“Back to D Ward. I noticed some of the wildest applause from the D Ward section tonight. I expect a surprise party for me. I’ll act surprised. “ (p88)
by Ben & Cameron
Justin
Details:
Justin Anderson is a social worker in his late thirties or his early forties. He is:
*Neat and precise.
*Full of his own importanceRelationships:
*Sceptical – about the play’s success. He doesn't believe in the patients' ability.
*Cynical – about the possibility of rehabilitation for his patients
Justin’s relationships are mainly involved with Lewis and the inmates. His relationship with Lewis is one of sarcasm where he doesn’t believe in Lewis and his abilities to make the inmates come out of their shell like he was requested.
His relationship with the inmates is also one of sarcasm and also can come across as arrogant towards them thinking he is a lot better than them
Conflict:
At the start of the play it is very hard for Lewis to gain Justin’s respect. As soon as something goes wrong the project becomes an experiment and must be cancelled.
Motivation/Goals:
I’d keep everything in track to look after the patients.
Make sure everyone is having fun and organised.
Key quotes:
‘’Sorry is such an easy word to say, you don’t greater disasters do you ‘’
‘’Lewis , they all have to be back in their wards at four. ‘’
‘’Come on everyone back to your wards.’’
‘Marvellous. Just marvellous, Lewis. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. A few down the front were a bit quiet, but what can you expect from the catatonics, right? And the cast! Didn’t think it was possible. Came right out of their shells. They blossomed. Blossomed!’ (84)
by Pete & Xav
Other points to note about Justin:
Represents the inadequacies of the mental health system in the 70’s and conflicting ideas about treatment eg. high art vs electric shock
Has had Roy complaining to him every day about Lewis’ direction but doesn’t actively support Lewis.
Is patronising towards Lewis
Doesn’t seem to understand the patients he is trying to help
Justin Anderson is a social worker in his late thirties or his early forties. He is:
*Neat and precise.
*Full of his own importanceRelationships:
*Sceptical – about the play’s success. He doesn't believe in the patients' ability.
*Cynical – about the possibility of rehabilitation for his patients
Justin’s relationships are mainly involved with Lewis and the inmates. His relationship with Lewis is one of sarcasm where he doesn’t believe in Lewis and his abilities to make the inmates come out of their shell like he was requested.
His relationship with the inmates is also one of sarcasm and also can come across as arrogant towards them thinking he is a lot better than them
Conflict:
At the start of the play it is very hard for Lewis to gain Justin’s respect. As soon as something goes wrong the project becomes an experiment and must be cancelled.
Motivation/Goals:
I’d keep everything in track to look after the patients.
Make sure everyone is having fun and organised.
Key quotes:
‘’Sorry is such an easy word to say, you don’t greater disasters do you ‘’
‘’Lewis , they all have to be back in their wards at four. ‘’
‘’Come on everyone back to your wards.’’
‘Marvellous. Just marvellous, Lewis. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. A few down the front were a bit quiet, but what can you expect from the catatonics, right? And the cast! Didn’t think it was possible. Came right out of their shells. They blossomed. Blossomed!’ (84)
by Pete & Xav
Other points to note about Justin:
Represents the inadequacies of the mental health system in the 70’s and conflicting ideas about treatment eg. high art vs electric shock
Has had Roy complaining to him every day about Lewis’ direction but doesn’t actively support Lewis.
Is patronising towards Lewis
Doesn’t seem to understand the patients he is trying to help
Nick
Name /Details: Nick (last name unknown) aged between 21 and 24, He is Lewis’ friend and Lucy’s lover, He is a director of university plays.
Personal Qualities: The character Nick has many different personality traits;
Nick is very blunt and to the point with his directing. This is a good quality to have when you are a director as you need to take charge and assert your dominance.
Nick is also very idealistic in his views on the Vietnam War. This trait compiled with his nature to be very blunt and to the point ends up being the primary source of tension between himself an Henry, as their views about the war differ.
Another of Nick’s personality traits is his untrustworthy nature. An example of his completely selfish and despicable betrayal of Lewis is when he has sex with Lucy. Nick’s arrogance about the whole situation is shown when he quips to Lewis “No, she’s sleeping with you, we’re having sex”.
Relationships: Nick has a relationship as friends with Lewis and as a lover with Lucy even though Lucy and Lewis are together, this shows that nick cannot hold a good relationship as he is into free love. Henry and nick have a hate and hate relationship from the moment they saw each other, the situation was heated since day one when they found out that their personalities clashed
Conflict: He has conflict with Henry over the people in the play being Albanians and not Australian soldiers
Motivational goals: Nick is motivated to support bringing our troops over from the war and be with Lucy
Emotional and intellectual growth: He doesn’t really grow throughout the story he just stays in the same frame of mind throughout the book
Key quotes associated with characters:
“No, she’s sleeping with you, we’re having sex”.
“Barricades and bombs? Why Not?”
“A fuckin’ Mozart opera. Lucy can’t believe it either”
“They are going to take me away to the funny farm”
“Not only are they nuts, but they’re right wing nuts.”
Personal Qualities: The character Nick has many different personality traits;
Nick is very blunt and to the point with his directing. This is a good quality to have when you are a director as you need to take charge and assert your dominance.
Nick is also very idealistic in his views on the Vietnam War. This trait compiled with his nature to be very blunt and to the point ends up being the primary source of tension between himself an Henry, as their views about the war differ.
Another of Nick’s personality traits is his untrustworthy nature. An example of his completely selfish and despicable betrayal of Lewis is when he has sex with Lucy. Nick’s arrogance about the whole situation is shown when he quips to Lewis “No, she’s sleeping with you, we’re having sex”.
Relationships: Nick has a relationship as friends with Lewis and as a lover with Lucy even though Lucy and Lewis are together, this shows that nick cannot hold a good relationship as he is into free love. Henry and nick have a hate and hate relationship from the moment they saw each other, the situation was heated since day one when they found out that their personalities clashed
Conflict: He has conflict with Henry over the people in the play being Albanians and not Australian soldiers
Motivational goals: Nick is motivated to support bringing our troops over from the war and be with Lucy
Emotional and intellectual growth: He doesn’t really grow throughout the story he just stays in the same frame of mind throughout the book
Key quotes associated with characters:
“No, she’s sleeping with you, we’re having sex”.
“Barricades and bombs? Why Not?”
“A fuckin’ Mozart opera. Lucy can’t believe it either”
“They are going to take me away to the funny farm”
“Not only are they nuts, but they’re right wing nuts.”
Lucy
Name/Details:
Lucy is aged between 20-23. She lives with Nick and Lewis. She is pretty and described as looking like a folk singer from the 1970’s.
Personal qualities:
• Independent
• Confident
• Indifferent
• Political Activist
• Opinionated
• Selfish
• Confident in her sexuality
• Believes in free love
• Lack of empathy towards mental patients
• Cheater
Relationships:
Lewis is her boyfriend at first they get along but Lucy tells Lewis she is sleeping with Nick and they break up.
Nick is her sexual partner, he moves in with them and at first she dislikes him because he is obnoxious and pig headed but they both believe in the same things and they have the same points of view. They get closer and eventually start having sex.
Conflict:
• Lucy is cheating on lewis with his bestfriend Nick “I’m sleeping with you and having sex with Nick”
• Lucy goes to protest against the Vietnam war at the moratorium with Nick
• Lucy feels left out with Lewis paying more attention to the mental patients
Motivation/Goals:
• To finish her university course
• Lucy is a political activist against the Vietnam War
Emotional + Intellectual growth:
• Emotionally Lucy feels disattached towards Lewis
• Intellectually she grows closer to Nick and his intellect and political views
• Lucy herself, grows more as a women doing what she wants and what she believes in
Quotes:
P1. Lucy is sceptical of Lewis doing Cosi
“Are you sure you know what you are doing?”
P.70 Lucy comes to take Lewis to the Gallileo rehearsals. He chooses not to go.
“Working with these people has changed you. We used to talk about things. Important things. Now all you can talk about is reactionary drivel like Cosi Fan Tutte”
P.70 Lucy is talking to Lewis about Nick
“He is a fantastic organiser”
P.70 Lucy chooses to go to nicks rehearsals over Lewis
“I’m going to Nicks rehearsals”
P.71 Lucy tells Lewis she is cheating on him
“I have sex with Nick and sleep with you”
P.71 Lucy expresses her views towards the relationship
“Lewis it’s not as if we are married”
P.71 Lucy talks about fidelity
“No, I am a Woman. Ever heard of a man who is faithful?”
P.72 Stage directions – Lucy finds out Lewis kissed Julie
[LUCY, Storms out of the hall. Silence.]
by Ashlee & Callam
Lucy is aged between 20-23. She lives with Nick and Lewis. She is pretty and described as looking like a folk singer from the 1970’s.
Personal qualities:
• Independent
• Confident
• Indifferent
• Political Activist
• Opinionated
• Selfish
• Confident in her sexuality
• Believes in free love
• Lack of empathy towards mental patients
• Cheater
Relationships:
Lewis is her boyfriend at first they get along but Lucy tells Lewis she is sleeping with Nick and they break up.
Nick is her sexual partner, he moves in with them and at first she dislikes him because he is obnoxious and pig headed but they both believe in the same things and they have the same points of view. They get closer and eventually start having sex.
Conflict:
• Lucy is cheating on lewis with his bestfriend Nick “I’m sleeping with you and having sex with Nick”
• Lucy goes to protest against the Vietnam war at the moratorium with Nick
• Lucy feels left out with Lewis paying more attention to the mental patients
Motivation/Goals:
• To finish her university course
• Lucy is a political activist against the Vietnam War
Emotional + Intellectual growth:
• Emotionally Lucy feels disattached towards Lewis
• Intellectually she grows closer to Nick and his intellect and political views
• Lucy herself, grows more as a women doing what she wants and what she believes in
Quotes:
P1. Lucy is sceptical of Lewis doing Cosi
“Are you sure you know what you are doing?”
P.70 Lucy comes to take Lewis to the Gallileo rehearsals. He chooses not to go.
“Working with these people has changed you. We used to talk about things. Important things. Now all you can talk about is reactionary drivel like Cosi Fan Tutte”
P.70 Lucy is talking to Lewis about Nick
“He is a fantastic organiser”
P.70 Lucy chooses to go to nicks rehearsals over Lewis
“I’m going to Nicks rehearsals”
P.71 Lucy tells Lewis she is cheating on him
“I have sex with Nick and sleep with you”
P.71 Lucy expresses her views towards the relationship
“Lewis it’s not as if we are married”
P.71 Lucy talks about fidelity
“No, I am a Woman. Ever heard of a man who is faithful?”
P.72 Stage directions – Lucy finds out Lewis kissed Julie
[LUCY, Storms out of the hall. Silence.]
by Ashlee & Callam
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