Elizabethan Character Profile

Character #1:

Name: Richard Price

Job: Wig Maker; Richard's family business is in Wig Making. Everyone in his family all helps out with the business- a typical working day will include making wigs and hairpieces for both men AND women, cutting hair, selling perfumes, powders, soaps and cures for lice! He is working class but most of his customers are Working/Upper Class and they very often treat him disrespectfully and look down on him. He was disowned by his parents at just 12 years old and has now become part of the Price Family (who own the Wig Making business.

Transport: On Foot; Richard doesn't have much money and therefore walks everywhere. This includes walking to the theatre as he lives just a 10 minute from the theatre.

Home: His home is very small- in fact, there is just 4 rooms in the house for 8 people. There is a communal toilet in the garden that residents and his family all share.

Props/Costume he's seen in the theatre: 

Richard has only seen Shakespeare's productions/plays as he makes/fits wigs for Shakespeare's actors. He is used to seeing the 'medieval' costumes like the ones in the photo to the right. Of course, he has

What he likes about Theatre:
Richard's favourite thing about theatre is the acting. He dreams of becoming  an actor himself and loves Shakespeare's Tragedy Plays- his favourites are Macbeth and Rome and Juliet. 

What he dislikes about Theatre:

How filthy the standing area is and how everyone is always drunk and disrespectful to the actors.

What plays he has watched recently and what is his favourite play:

He has seen Romeo and Juliet very recently. It was his favourite play of Shakespeare's tragedy sub-genre. He liked it because the storyline was heart breaking and it genuinely made him leave the theatre sad. He loves how plays can capture him like Romeo And Juliet did.