OneCharacter, Location, Time Frame
When you are working in the real world, you may start with a rough idea. You may start with a situation that seems worthy. You may start with a commission for a story and be given the premise. If you’re lucky, you’ll start with a character that has tickled your interest. Whatever the case, when you find your character, you will find your story—not the other way round. Character is of prime importance because it is the characters of our imagination that we evolve, that we create, that carry OUR ideas … our ideas, alive, to the audience.
These characters deliver our message, make our arguments, present our puzzles, and give voice to the humor, drama, perplexity, and mystery of what it means to be human. Our characters ...
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