Characters
There are five characters in the play. They are:
- Mal Rodale, husband, father, and manager at furniture showroom
- Jill Rodale, wife of Mal, now full-time housewife and mother
- Chrissie Snaith, Mal and Jill's married daughter
- Sam Rodale, Mal and Jill's school-age son
- Dean Snaith, Chrissie's husband and work colleague of Mal
When Mal and Jill swap bodies, the actors continue playing their original body. (In other words, the actor who starts playing Mal later plays Jill in Mal's body, and vice versa.) This is in contrast to Body Language where the two actresses continued playing themselves in new bodies.
Read more about this topic: If I Were You (play)
Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)