The NCS has been championed by David Cameron, and is aimed at bringing together 16- and 17-year-olds from different backgrounds to undertake character-forming community work.
A lot of events are happening in "Lady Macbeth" but they're told with the barest of exposition; sometimes a few seconds of a character undertaking an action or brushing themselves off after its completion is all that's given us to convey a full cause-and-effect.
To be more precise, he undertook the role of every character in "A Christmas Carol" for three seasons (1991, 1992 and 1994) on Broadway, doing a one-man show in which he went so far as to imitate the sounds of the clocks and bells in the script.
Traditionally, in Peking Opera, this signifies that a character is undertaking a long journey, in this context, showing the long journey to and from the afterlife.
At its centre is a quest, its solution easily found, undertaken by a character who is little more than a void.
In this archetype, the main character undertakes a journey -- physical or emotional, literal or figurative -- to understand something about herself/himself or the world around her/him, or to achieve an important goal.
Though she initially intended another actress to portray Elinor, Thompson was persuaded to undertake the part herself, despite the wide disparity with her character's age.
Mr. Mailer belonged to the old literary school that regarded novel writing as a heroic enterprise undertaken by heroic characters with egos to match.
Hergé planned for the former story to outline a mystery, while the latter would see his characters undertake an expedition to solve it.
When Mr. Suchet first undertook the role in 1987, he prepared a voluminous dossier on Poirot and then synthesized it into 93 character notes, which always accompanied him on set.
