Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

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Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/15/06 at 9:42pm

Mary Tyrone? George and Martha?

Who do you think is the most screwed up character in all dramatic works?

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/15/06 at 9:44pm

Blanche DuBois...poor woman totally loses it by the end of the play. She has some issues.

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/15/06 at 9:45pm

Agnes (of God)

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/15/06 at 9:50pm

I was gonna Say Blanche Dubois as well... MAybe the old beggar woman from Sweeney?

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/15/06 at 9:52pm

Roy Cohn--Angels in America. Twisted and evil as Obi-Wan once said. And also one of my dream roles.

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re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/15/06 at 11:56pm

Well, but of course...Blanche!
:)

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 12:00am

i think the characters in DOUBT are pretty nuts, but not in an obtrusive, outbursting way.. but more of a subtle pyshcological way.. if that makes any sense.

hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 12:17am

The Goat F***er (Albee)

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 1:06am

Blanche: Is that the incomparable Jessica Tandy as Blanche DuBois in your avatar?

How about Rapunzel (INTO THE WOODS)? She's pretty much a feral child who's been kept locked up in a tower in solitary confinement, away from human contact. Once she is released to the world, she goes mad unable to cope with her new surroundings and is later killed (perhaps commits suicide?) by a giant.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 9/16/06 at 01:06 AM

#10

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 1:31am

Anybody see Robbie's grandfather in The Wedding Singer? I just feel horrible for the guy, and the ever-confused look on his face.

#11

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 1:47am

Katurian K. Katurian in The Pillowman

#12

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:16am

Why, Hamlet, of course!!

ETA: And a slightly more obscure screwed up character: Krapp (Beckett)

Updated On: 9/16/06 at 02:16 AM

#13

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:17am

I think Michal is far more screwed up than Katurian in The Pillowman.

My vote goes to Harper Pitt in AiA.

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#14

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:27am

Oedipus Rex

#15

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:40am

BroadwayChica: I should've known! (See signature below.)

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#16

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:44am

Stagemanager2: Yes indeed, that is Jessica Tandy. The one and only.:)

#17

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:51am

I'd have to say Medea and Blanche DuBois. Crazy.

#18

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:52am

Clara Johnson: The Light in the Piazza. You gotta feel bad for the girl.

#19

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 10:16am

The first character that came to my mind was Lady McB

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

#20

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 10:21am

Every character in The Pillowman and Blanche DuBois from Streetcar.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

#21

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 10:43am

I'd have to agree with Harper in Angels in America. Messed up- but a totally awesome role. At the end of Sweeney Todd- Toby is pretty out there at well.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

#22

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 11:23am

Someone from Lieutenant of Inishmore

#23

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 11:31am

I definitely have to agree with the characters from DOUBT

but i feel most bad for the Beggar Woman from SWEENEY...

poor woman, it's so sad how she says "Dont I know you?" and her own husband has to kill her...gosh

#24

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 11:41am

Mostly everyone in Cuckoos Nest

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#25

re: Most Screwed Up Character in Drama

Posted: 9/16/06 at 12:11pm

The Begger Woman and Toby are pretty screwed up (even though its not their fault).

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are crazy by the end of the show.

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

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