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The Play Buddy Character Analysis
To be a great actor you must absorb your characters needs, wants, and desires. Throughout each moment of the play, the actor that played Buddy engulfed those three things to deceive the audience into believing he was Buddy the elf. The actor made this clear throughout the play by the thrill in the way they moved, the excitement in their voice, and how he was able to display how he felt to the audience with his facial expressions. The character Buddy transforms through the course of the play from being an innocent child from the North Pole, to being let down by the bitter real world that he thought so highly of. The actor didn’t skip a beat consuming the premise of the character ate every moment of the play, making it impossible to detect

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