It is easy, however, to let this list of characters go too far descriptively. For instance, this next list tells much which might better appear first in the body of the scenario. The danger here is one already mentioned in this book, namely, that such careful characterizing in the dramatis personæ or program is likely to make the characterization of the scenario or play inadequate.[3]
AN ENCORE
Adapted from the story by Margaret Deland
In Two Acts
Time: About 1830 in June.
Place: Little town of Old Chester.
Between the first and second acts three weeks elapse.
Dramatis Personæ
Captain Price: Retired sea-captain, big, bluff, and hearty, with white hair and big white mustachios, rather untidy as to dress. Age, about 68.
Cyrus Price: His son, weak and neat-looking, very thin and of sandy complexion. Age, about 35.
Mrs. North: Sprightly, pretty, white-haired little lady of about 65. Always in black silk.
Miss North: Her daughter, nervous and shy, but truthful with a mania for taking care of her mother and no knowledge of how to wear her clothes; about 40.