EXTRA WORK
Nov 04, 2021
3 minutes
To quote the line of a song, ‘Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye.’ (Composed by Don Wayne and originally sung by Tom Tall and Val Doonican).
I give you this titbit of useless information as a contrived lead-in to talking about ‘walk-ons’, aka minor characters. Often seen briefly, they serve to fill out scenes, provide information or do things you don’t want the main characters to do, then exit stage left. Described in the theatre or film world as spear-carriers, they are there mostly as local colour, sometimes
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