Characters In Beauty And Zombie Love

The characters within the three plays, although are not completely developed for the audience, are definitely not the average stereotypical characters that can be depicted in literature. For example, Carla, in “Beauty”, can be assumed as the stereotypical ‘prima-donna hot chick’. However, as the play continues on, the audience is provided with a more developed character, as they discover that Carla wishes that she wasn’t all beauty, but rather someone with a personality that can attract different people, for long-term relationships. Overall, a ten-minute play can never fully develope a certain character. There is so much that goes into a character's background, intentions, and dialogue, that it would be impossible to completely develop one

Although the ages of each character is not specified, the audience can assume what general age each character is. For instance, in “Beauty”, Carla speaks about how she is able to get dates in bars and is even proposed to over the phone. This allows the audience to assume that she is in her twenties. However, if it was stated that Carla was in her early teens, the idea that she was able to drink in bars and ‘freely date’ can be considered unacceptable for her age. Additionally, in “Zombie Love”, viewers would find it utterly disgusting to find that perhaps a young, adolescent, girl/boy were to fall in love with a zombie, and then tell said zombie lover to kill their best friend. Finally, the psychiatric interview that Lamb underwent, in the “Applicant”, was terrifying. Had it been stated that Lamb was an elder, about the age of 80, the interview would be increasingly horrific. All in all, the gender or race of an actor that is portraying a certain part doesn't really affect the outcome of the play. However, the age difference between the dialogue and the actor can create a drastic change on how the audience view

Perhaps in normal plays the setting can be described in further detail, however, in ten-minute plays, the setting can be kept to a minimal. Overall, if any of each of the play's settings needs to be discussed in more detail, it would need to be “Zombie Love”. In “Zombie Love” it’s depicted that the characters are in, what society claims as the zombie apocalypse. However, there isn’t a significant amount of information detailing why the zombie apocalypse, isn’t an apocalypse. For instance, why can the zombie talk? How is the rest of the world, other than the bench and