Role Scoring Questions
1. How does the title of the play relate to your character?
2. What is your character’s main sense of urgency? What strong impulse motivates your
character to act?
3. If your character has a secret what is it?
4. What rhythm might you associate with your character? What type of music or song is
your character most like?
5. What sound might you associate with character? (Sighing, wheezing, and grunting are
some examples)
6. What is your character’s master gesture? (a distinctive action that servers as a clue to
a character’s personality)
7. What is your character’s leading center? (The head? The heart? The stomach?)
8. What color might you associate with your character? Why?
9. What object might you associate with your character? Why?
10. What animal might you associate with your character? Why?
11. What are your character’s two primary senses?
12. Does your character “mask”, or cover up, feelings and behaviors? If so, what does
your character mask?
13. Does your character have a sense of humor? Is this sense of humor used in a positive
or negative way?
14. In real life, would you be your character’s friend? Why or why not?
15. What is your character’s most positive trait?
16. What is your character’s status in the world? Does your character have money and
power?
17. What are your character’s major wants and desires?
18. What is your character’s major objective for each scene in which he or she appears?
19. How does your character go about achieving those objectives?
20. What is your character’s life objective?
21. How does your character go about achieving his or her life objectives?
22. Has your character changed by the end of the play? If so, in what ways?
