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:
“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
Reality, composed thereof. They are
The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that’s basically a conservative view of life.”
—Jane Smiley (b. 1949)
“Children pay little attention to their parent’s teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)