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A Character Analysis of Rivka Slovenski
Rivka was born in the small Jewish village of Pierogi in the backcountry of Poland. She was the oldest of 17 brothers and sisters, the younger half of which were sold to the Soviet Union for medical experimentation after the family farm dissolved following a strange cabbage plague carried by rabbits. Rivka helped the family out financially by playing clarinet in a small Klezmer band in the nearby villages. Her father, Elya, was also a skilled woodworker, and made a partial living making ornate carvings of Winston Churchill and selling them off to the British army during the war in exchange for aid from the Nazi invasion. They moved to England where her father got a job trapping foxes for his landlord. It was here that Rivka learned to speak fluent English. Her father lost his left leg one morning, accidentally stepping into one of his own fox traps and severing the limb. Rivka had acquired woodcarving skills of her own by watching her father throughout her childhood, and was able to carve him a beautiful wooden peg. It was hollow, and Elya was able to store his homemade vodka inside.
When she came of age, Rivka married an Israelite butcher named Raymond Duck. They lived together in England for three years, and then immigrated to America to start a new life. They arrived in New York, and soon afterward, Raymond grew stressed, depressed and homesick, and took to drinking as a means of escape. Raymond was an angry drunk, and began beating Rivka when ill mood struck him. Afraid for her life, Rivka fled from her home in New York, and hid herself in the streets of New York, praying that Raymond wouldn't find her.
Arvide Abernathy stumbled across Rivka one evening while out trying to convert sinners. He found her barefooted, weary, delirious, and sucking used coffee grounds out of the bottom of back-alley trash can. Being the kind-hearted old man he is, Arvide offered her shelter and took her to the mission. Rivka never returned to the streets, and two days later, it was announced in the papers that Raymond had been severely injured in a ghastly streetcar/parade float accident, was hospitalized, and died of a brain aneurysm an hour later.
Rivka, wanting to feel useful and gracious to her newfound family, converted to Christianity. She was having trouble keeping kosher anyhow, due to her late husband's occupation, and the fact that Poland and Pork Sausage go together like Lennon and McCartney. She also put her clarinet-playing talents to use, and joined the Salvation Army Mission Band, parading around the streets of New York, helping to bring stray sinners onto the path of salvation.
Rivka was born in the small Jewish village of Pierogi in the backcountry of Poland. She was the oldest of 17 brothers and sisters, the younger half of which were sold to the Soviet Union for medical experimentation after the family farm dissolved following a strange cabbage plague carried by rabbits. Rivka helped the family out financially by playing clarinet in a small Klezmer band in the nearby villages. Her father, Elya, was also a skilled woodworker, and made a partial living making ornate carvings of Winston Churchill and selling them off to the British army during the war in exchange for aid from the Nazi invasion. They moved to England where her father got a job trapping foxes for his landlord. It was here that Rivka learned to speak fluent English. Her father lost his left leg one morning, accidentally stepping into one of his own fox traps and severing the limb. Rivka had acquired woodcarving skills of her own by watching her father throughout her childhood, and was able to carve him a beautiful wooden peg. It was hollow, and Elya was able to store his homemade vodka inside.
When she came of age, Rivka married an Israelite butcher named Raymond Duck. They lived together in England for three years, and then immigrated to America to start a new life. They arrived in New York, and soon afterward, Raymond grew stressed, depressed and homesick, and took to drinking as a means of escape. Raymond was an angry drunk, and began beating Rivka when ill mood struck him. Afraid for her life, Rivka fled from her home in New York, and hid herself in the streets of New York, praying that Raymond wouldn't find her.
Arvide Abernathy stumbled across Rivka one evening while out trying to convert sinners. He found her barefooted, weary, delirious, and sucking used coffee grounds out of the bottom of back-alley trash can. Being the kind-hearted old man he is, Arvide offered her shelter and took her to the mission. Rivka never returned to the streets, and two days later, it was announced in the papers that Raymond had been severely injured in a ghastly streetcar/parade float accident, was hospitalized, and died of a brain aneurysm an hour later.
Rivka, wanting to feel useful and gracious to her newfound family, converted to Christianity. She was having trouble keeping kosher anyhow, due to her late husband's occupation, and the fact that Poland and Pork Sausage go together like Lennon and McCartney. She also put her clarinet-playing talents to use, and joined the Salvation Army Mission Band, parading around the streets of New York, helping to bring stray sinners onto the path of salvation.
We did "Guys and Dolls" as the musical this year, and I was cast in a very meager role as the nameless clarinet player in the Salvation Army Mission Band.
As an assignment, my professor had me make up a character history for my role to better understand my character, and to make player her more interesting.
So this is what I came up with.
Keep in mind... when I say "meager role", I MEAN meager role. Literally, all I do in the entire musical is walk across the stage a few times and play clarinet... occasionally look surprised when one of the crapshooters spouts vulgarity, and that's really it.
So where I came up with this whole "Polish Immigrant" thing, fuck knows.
As an assignment, my professor had me make up a character history for my role to better understand my character, and to make player her more interesting.
So this is what I came up with.
Keep in mind... when I say "meager role", I MEAN meager role. Literally, all I do in the entire musical is walk across the stage a few times and play clarinet... occasionally look surprised when one of the crapshooters spouts vulgarity, and that's really it.
So where I came up with this whole "Polish Immigrant" thing, fuck knows.
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