Unless you want to look like a Japanese theater character, however, Nars recommends using a little restraint: "It's highly pigmented, so I suggest starting out light and building for desired intensity.
Her murderous high jinks may (or may not, depending on your stomach for outrageously amoral violence) make for an entertaining read, but as a theater character she never transcends the lurid two dimensions of the written page.
A neurotic, witty, irritating, grudge-holding perfectionist whose gifts were nearly but not quite first rate, Kleban was, evidently, a theater "character," beloved by theater insiders who, among other things, admired how he poured his own life experiences into his storytelling songs.
Every mask has its own story, and symbolizes a different Italian theater character.
A friend of mine was directing a show at the Lucille Lortel Theater, "Six Characters in Search of an Author".
The entire theater of characters Scott had introduced me to were all, in fact, the same person.
Opera connoisseurs may debate the merits of beautiful voices, but for people who believe in opera as theater, as characters in vocal action, the German soprano Anja Silja has to count among the supreme performers.
Nonlinear and occasionally tricky to follow, it's a series of plays within plays; and as in a piece of experimental theater, its characters often break mid-dialogue to confess in startlingly honest asides or snatch at one another's thoughts, with lighting and music added during moments of high drama or hushed intimacy.
Nor were other standards of theater -- character, dialogue, making sense.
