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Cynthia
Cynthia is a sensitive middle-school aged child with behavioral issues. Other children bully her because she is chubby and has blemished skin. Cynthia just wants to be accepted by her peers, but she puts her foot in her mouth every time she speaks because she’s so nervous. Cynthia is lonely and depressed. |
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Chester
Chester is someone’s jolly drunk uncle. He lives with his mother and has no responsibilities or ambitions in life other than to have fun. He’s the kind of gregarious, charismatic person who runs into someone who knows his name everywhere he goes. Chester is the life of the party. |
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Sylvester
Sylvester is a tortured intellectual and a disco dancer. He was born in the 1920s in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to the west coast when he was a young man. He spent his twenties in jazz clubs with beat poets, and took part in the early acid tests of the 1960s. It was at one of these events that he met his wife, Edith. Sylvester is a brilliant inventor, but suffers from clinical depression and is very destructive in his relationships. He owned a small framing shop in Los Angeles in the 1960s, where he framed artwork for many interesting locals, among them screen printer and anti-war activist Sister Corita Kent. Sylvester also invented a small sculptural toy out of magnets that, in this day and age, has become a marketing device for large corporations. The subversion of his invention into a tool for capitalism goes against everything Sylvester believes in, but since the patent has expired, nothing can be done about it. |
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Edith
Edith came to the United States from Transylvania when she was eight years old. She has always longed for the mysterious forests and medieval castles of her early childhood. Edith is approaching 90 years old and still participates in political and social activism. Just last week, she protested a WalMart opening in her neighborhood. Edith makes excellent matzoh ball soup. |
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