Character Profile

The characters I am playing in Into the Woods I am playing the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince.

The wolf is described as like Fred Astaire. So I would imagine him being suave and sly as well as creepy, this is because in the script he is asking her some pretty normal questions but with a motive that is more than just asking her what's in her basket. I think that the creepy side of the world comes hand in hand with the sly side. I think that the Wolf helps to symbolise Little Red Riding Hoods change from being an innocent young girl into adulthood. I think that the wolf is also just out for food, eating Granny and Little Red Riding Hood. Because the Wolf is very sly, I think that his movement will be quite slow and smooth, quite bent over and not upright.


When I looked at the two pictures below from different performances of Into The Woods, I thought about how I could look at taking parts from the two characters and adding them to mine. I thought that the sly nature from the picture of Johnny Depp and the smartness, with the almost dominating nature of the second picture. From taking these I hope that my character is sly when he first enters, but I could also use my size to show how I am in control of the situation.





I also play Cinderella's Prince who is the brother of Rapunzel's Prince. He is very proper and posh, which you can tell from the actual text as well as the way he reacts with Rapunzel's Prince  Throughout the first part of his story is is trying to find Cinderella. He isn't often on for long periods of time other than the song 'Agony'. He often pops on and is then off again. He eventually finds Cinderella after going through her family to see if the slipper fits. All he wants throughout the play is to find Cinderella. In the part when he is with Rapunzel's Prince, I see him as being quite jokey with him as brothers would be, even though he is sad about not having Cinderella yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2AJLCFHeRY
I like the way that the brothers joke around with each other in this version although I think that they do go a bit over the top with it. I thought that I could take aspects of it such as the horses and the comedy side of it and put it into my performance.




I thought that Cinderella's Prince needed to be really over the top and exaggerated very much like a pantomime prince. In all of the research I did for this character he is very extrovert and extreme in his movements and voice and so I wanted to mimic this style in my performance.