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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Any Body For Tea? Character Questions

Please answer the following Character Questions about your character in Any Body For Tea?

1. Who am I?
2. Where am I?
3. What time is it?
4. What surrounds me?
5. What are the given circumstances
What does the script say about your character?
What do others say about your character?
What do you say about yourself?
6. What are my relationships?
7. What do I want (main and immediate objective/goal)?
8. What is in the way of my objective?
9. How do I get what I want (accomplish my objective)?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. Captain Williams of the Metropolitan Police Department

2. I split my time between my large, but overcrowded office, and my average sized home.

3. It is late at night and I have reports to write and things to sign off on, and I can't be bothered by employees who want to change divisions because of senior stalkers.

4. I have a goose necked lamp, a large, old, oaken desk. There are filing cabinets spewing papers and folders. An impish little mouse has made a hole across from my desk, and he is constantly disturbing me. There is a window unit, but somehow, it always seems stuffy in my office.

5. The script tells me that I'm iritable. Others can't say anything about me, because they'll lose their jobs. I say, "Respect my Authoritay"

6. I'm an isolated man. After my wife died several years back, I was notably different. I don't have the sympathy for my force as I used to. I don't have the idle time needed to deal with detectives like Browning and Fife.

7. I've served on the MPD for the past 37 years and I'm ready to move on. I feel like I'm too old to deal with the youthfulness of today's police officers. I would like to retire and get my golden watch. Maybe then I'll see how much of the bucket list I can get done.

8. Well, a number of things stand in my way of getting what I want. One is a man who thinks that a few old biddies are infatuated with him. Another is my diabetes, which my work health insurance covers; if I left, then I couldn't cover my liberty medical supplies. Another is my grandchildren. If I wasn't working as much as I do then I'd be expected to babysit them, and I'm not good with today's teenage girls.

9. Well, first I must oblige Browning so that he learns to help himself. Then I got to fight the feds and get under Medicare. Then I would be eligible for free Liberty testing supplies. Then my granddaughters would need to go off to college. Maybe then I could retire.

LOOKIEheresBROOKIE said...

that is really good kevin!!

melinda~bekah said...

1. Nettie Norton, small, quiet, forgetful, and somewhat clumsy border of Miss Hildegarde Hodge

2. I am a border of Miss Hildegarde Hodge with four other older women like myself.

3. It is about six o'clock in the morning. We all wake up early so as to watch Mr. Browning get ready for work. He is quite handsome and has a regular workout routine.

4. It is a nicely, furnished home with a flower pattern couch and a small, brown recliner. There is a antique tea table in front of the table that we regularly use. The lace curtians are thrown back and Elizabeth is watching Mr. Browning with the binoculars. Amantha and Birde are on the couch. Amantha is about to go into one of her coughing fits because she is so excited about Mr. Browning or because she keeps smoking that awful cigarette. Hildegarde is preparing the tea, she is such a dear. Lucy is sitting in the recliner and is raptly listening to Elizabeth describe Mr. Browning's strawberry mark.

5. Well, we are trying to figure a way to get Mr. Browning over to our house, and Amantha suggested that we kill off Elizabeth. The script suggests that I am rather clumsy and drop things a lot. Also, I am forgetful and say things that I shouldn't. My feelings are hurt very easily, and I have a tendency to cry. The other women view me as a quiet, dumb little woman. Little do they know that being quiet allows me find out more than they would want me to. I would say that I am a bit of a recluse from the other women. I don't really care for all the idle small talk and gossip. I am a little selfish about my possesions, but they are mine. I am a bit too honest at times and that gets me in trouble.

6. I was married to a wonderful man, Nelson Norton. He was good to me and supplied me everything. Little did I know, he was supplying others as well. Well I took care of that little hussy, Vannessa Schoonmaker. Anyway, my husband found himself without anymore suppliers, so he found out how nice it was to have a little wife at home. He died several years later. I came to live with my dear old friend Hildegarde after that. I was just too lonely, and Hildegarde is the only woman I have ever trusted.

7. Well, I do wish that the handsome, Mr. Browning would take notice of how much more stylish I look than the other ladies and love me just as my Nelson did.

8. I am in competition with five other ladies to win his affections. I'm not really worried about Amantha, Hildegarde, or obviously Elizabeth, but Birdie and Lucy are rather young and such bold hussies!

9. Well, we did kill off Elizabeth so that is one lady down, but we haven't seen Mr. Browning in such a long time. I don't know what we are going to do next. Maybe we will kill off another border.... I hope it is Lucy, she is just so happy all the time.

Hilary! said...

1. Hildegarde Henrietta Hollingsworth Hodge
2. At my quaint but charming boarding house in upstate New York in the suburbs. I bought the house 30 years ago, and boy, was it a fixer-upper. But my wonderful domestic skills transformed the once dingy house into a prim and proper pink house, decorated with lots of pink furniture. My large collection of china dolls are on display upstairs. Collecting dolls has been my hobby since Harold died. It takes up all the time and energy I would spend on waiting on him. Of course, not that I really waited on him hand and foot or anything like that. By cooking for him, keeping his house neat and tidy, and taking care of all those tiresome chores such as laundry and what not, I was able to have complete control over him. Just as I planned when I married him, of course.
3. It's twenty minutes until tea time, and I must get to making those tea sandwiches!
4. A lovely pink kitchen decorated by none other than myself. Pink wallpaper, a perfectly mopped hardwood floor, pink countertops, a charming wood kitchen table topped with a white lace doily and delicate pink china figurines of cats.
5. The script tells me that I am a calm, respectable woman. However, I am very controlling and have a dark conniving side. I may have been born and raised in Charleston, Souh Carolina, but I am much more than a southern lady. I am much smarter than my perfectly decorated pink home gives me credit for. My boarders think that I am too strict and proper. They think I'm a domineering old miser, but I know better than to believe their opinions. What does the script say about your character?
6. My fondest, favorite relationship is that I had with my dear Harold. We fell in love when I was seventeen and he was twenty-seven. My family frowned upon our marriage, but I knew better. He was an up-and-coming young lawyer who was moving to New York. While it was upsetting leaving the South and my family, I knew that my dear Harold would be able to provide for me for the rest of my life. We had three children, two sons and a daughter. Harold Hodge IV was our first child. Two years later, we had Henry. A year and a half later, we had our beautiful daughter Hannah-Heloise. I raised my children perfectly. I was a Sunday school teacher, room mother for all three of my children in elementary school, president of the PTA, and host of the most elegant Christmas party in all of New York State. It was the most-saught after invitation for fifteen years. I correspond with my children thorough letters and a phonecall from each every Sunday afternoon. My relatonship with my boarders is what it is. For the most part, they are amiable girls, they obey me overall and respect the rules. Well, except for that Amantha character. She would have greatly benefitted from finishing school and a good cotillion in her youth. As long as I get my money to mail order more china dolls, I am willing to live with them and attend to their needs.
7. To get my hands on that gorgeous Dennis Browning! He is the exact opposite of my dear Harold-and I find it absoloutely irresistable! I know that he finds me attractive in an older, wiser, more mature, womanly way. I mean, how could he not? I could have had any man in Charleston in my day. I know what I want and exactly how to get it. Besides, being surrounded by these bag ladies does help to increase my appeal even more.
8. All of my boarders! They want my dear Dennis, but they will not have him...I'll make sure of that.
9. Simply "take care of them" in the neatest, most ladylike way possible...