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Hello! I’m Jaz<\/h1>\n

Welcome to my blog…<\/h2>\n

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Building A Character<\/h2>\n

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Characters created by authors are sometimes inspired by people we have met, crossed paths with, popular figures we admire, people we like or dislike, or sometimes a conglomeration of all the above, depending on what would be needed. But, you see, I am also a theatrical director. So\u2026 I cast my books, instead.<\/p>\n

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As a director for a repertory company \u2014 meaning there is a pool of actors that are regularly employed during a season of plays \u2014 in that environment, I see not only their performances over time, but also how they work on their preparation.\u00a0 So, when I\u2019m submitting a play to the producers for consideration, I have ideas as to who I might know in the companies I\u2019ve worked with who might best suit certain difficult roles. I think it relatively foolish to submit a play when there is no one in the company to play a difficult, substantial role. Example \u2014 I submitted\u00a0<\/span>The<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Ruling<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Class<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>by Peter Barnes, to one company specifically as I had an actor I had worked with who would be well suited for the role of Jack, a tour de force role that goes from Jesus to Jack the Ripper. The submission was approved, but the actor left the company and I was stranded until one of the producers called a friend of theirs to audition. Crisis averted. From that experience, I try to have at least two or three people in mind, always allowing for surprises.<\/p>\n

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This rule usually stands. Unless I can have my brother Raymond. I will cast Raymond in anything I do; period, full stop, end of story. I\u2019m also lucky in that Raymond doesn\u2019t always want to do the shows I direct so the nepotism thing isn\u2019t always called out. But he is brilliant and when he is cast, he has always come through, so that people know it\u2019s because he really is the best for the role.<\/p>\n

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I cast him in several gem roles and he has always been stunning. He began to call me Marty and I called him Bobby because I was Scorsese to his DeNiro and vice versa. When I moved to England and began to embark on theatrical work here, anytime I needed audio of one sort or another, I called him. When I did the mystery play, Sleuth, in which the program lists extra actors in non-existent roles to keep the audience guessing \u2014 I used Ray\u2019s CV. When I did The Real Inspector Hound and needed a BBC announcer voice \u2014 Ray. The disembodied voice in And Then There Were None \u2014Ray. And when I had a rehearsal for a show and one of the actors was not there but Ray was visiting so he came in and read \u2014 well, everyone wanted me to recast. Oh, and when a friend directed The Real Inspector Hound \u2014 I gave her Ray\u2019s tape.<\/p>\n

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Now you need to understand something and it feels so strange to write this…Raymond is not my blood brother. He\u2019s not even my adoptive brother. Ray and I chose each other and our respective families have accepted this as fact. One of my best memories was at a Mexican restaurant celebrating Ray\u2019s birthday where I told my dad \u2014 then about 100 \u2014 that I considered Ray my brother and my dad took Ray by the wrist and said \u201cThen I consider him my son.\u201d From the beginning, Ray wanted both my daughter and son to know he was there for them. He became the Uncle they always should have had and more. He moved in with my son and I for a time and I remember one night I had got my son some card packs of Pirate Ships that you could punch out and build \u2014 very small but so cool \u2014 and then play a game with a small map and die included in each pack. I left him and Ray to put them together and I know I was not gone from the room too long but when I came back \u2014 The Pirates of the Caribbean was on the dvd and he and my son had pirate hats on and were playing the game in full Arrrrrgh voice. When my Son in Law was going to ask my daughter to marry him, he knew better than to ask my dad for permission \u2014 my daughter was living with my dad and he was not good at secrets \u2014 oh no, he called Ray. When they called to tell us they were engaged, my son and I were over the moon, but Ray \u2014 just smiled knowingly, nodding. The fact that he is so accepted makes it very easy to refer to him only as my brother.<\/p>\n

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So \u2014 back to my books, and the character of Simon \u2014 who inspired him? Well, that\u2019s not the process \u2014 what I did was cast the character according to what I knew he would have to do, and Raymond was the first to come to mind. Mostly because \u2014 spoiler alert \u2014 Simon must be both sympathetic and diabolical.\u00a0 Raymond is\u00a0<\/span>nothing<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>like Simon, but he could portray both sides of the most nuanced Simon I could ever hope to have.<\/p>\n

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Imagining him in \u201cthe role\u201d enabled me to do two crucial things as I wrote \u2014 the first was \u201cfleshing out the details\u201d of whatever action was needed to move the story forward (the look in the eye, the tone of the voice\u2026 the things that make the character real) and the second was just as important \u2014 keeping the personality of the characters distinct (I never lost track of where he was in his story arc).<\/p>\n

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Daniel Cabuco, my illustrator, asked me early on in the art process if I had anyone in mind as the characters he was about to draw. I asked if he wanted pictures. He responded positively and I emailed him the different people I had cast as well as several of Ray. It truly makes me happy, when I\u2019m looking at the artwork, especially of Simon with Hansel and Gretel, to see my brother brilliantly captured (right down to his slender hands) \u2014 but also my daughter as both Hansel\u00a0<\/span>and<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Gretel, each different, both obviously related, and yet two different moods, attitudes, intentions.<\/p>\n

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When the opportunity to do an audio book came, I told Skyboat Media \u2014 who produced the audio and also were staffed by people I had known from the company that Ray and I had been a part of \u2014 that Ray was my only choice as Simon. They agreed. If you have not heard the audio, you are truly in for a treat hearing several of the voices that I would always hear in my head whilst writing Once Upon a Mouse.<\/p>\n

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So on this National Siblings Day, I wish all of you with brothers and sisters to share in some banter, relive a good memory, maybe share a hug if you\u2019re so inclined, but also know that I wish each of you had a brother like my brother, Raymond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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J.A. Zarifian is a UK based author and theatrical director, living in Warwickshire. Her debut novel ‘Once Upon A Mouse’ is the first in the Ex-Libris Trilogy. A high-concept fantasy trilogy of books, based on fairy-tales and suitable to readers of all ages that love escaping into a good book.<\/p>\n

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J.A. Zarifian is a UK based author and theatrical director, living in Warwickshire. Her debut novel ‘Once Upon A Mouse’ is the first in the Ex-Libris Trilogy. A high-concept fantasy trilogy of books, based on fairy-tales and suitable to readers of all ages that love escaping into a good book.<\/p>\n

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