Supporting_Characters__The_Meat_And_Potatoes_Of_A_Good_Play

Supporting Characters: The Meat And Potatoes Of A Good Play Supporting Characters: The Meat and Potatoes of a Good Play In every play, story, book, and movie, you’ve always got a few main things that are always the same. One is that you always have some sort of flowing story involved that tells the reader, watcher, etc. something. The second is that you have main characters to convey this story and all the emotions intertwined to the audience, whatever the medium may be. We all seem to forget though, that there is much more to the story than what the main characters do. Without a supporting cast of characters, no story would ever be as good as it was with them. Imagine Othello without Iago. Imagine Frodo without Sam. I shudder to think of a world where Luke doesn’t have Han Solo by his side! All kidding aside, supporting characters are what make stories great and memorable, and these three plays prove that amazingly. Oedipus Rex, what a sad poor man. But he himself wasn’t really all that deep or memorable of a character. Yes the story revolved around him, but it never made him into a hero or anything better than a story, characters, one, without, play, supporting, role, plays, main, even, scene, never, always, again, though, show, read, old, oedipus, man, just, imagine, few, blind, although, world, told, today, tiresias, three, small, shows, seem, say, reader