Character development.

To play our wife we have casted Ophelia Chidgey, a school friend of mine and Lara's. We asked her to play our character as physically she fits our profile. She has long brunette hair, we wanted our character to have long hair so we are able to mess it up properly and style it in any way we please She is 18 years old however we are able to dress her up/down to make her look a lot older than she is. She is petite, 5ft2 skinny and pretty. She is well spoken and takes care of herself this is key to our character as she is desirable which makes our storyline more believable.

To play our husband we have cased Henry Burgoyne-Probyne a friend of Lara's He is older which works perfectly, we want there to be a noticeable age gap between the husband and wife to portray a 'trophy wife' persona! but also because of their age gap it could show why he wants to keep her all to himself as he may feel that he couldn't get anyone so beautiful. He is 6ft.. and in good shape giving him a physical advantage over Ophelia. Henry is a good looking man and is capable of facial hair ( which if we used somebody our own age would be hard to find) so when filming the scene where he's the abuser we will ask him to keep his stubble and then we'll film the wedding scene afterwards and ask him to shave. 

In our piece we have a third actor however as you do not see them at all, I don't think we have to do a character profile! However, a voice profile we can do!!!

Voice profile: we want the voice to be a female voice, well spoken,  young adult- middle age. We want her to have compassion in her voice but also sound concerned.