Devising Assignment Week 5 - Character Profile

Character Profile: Doctor Joe

Name:

Doctor William Joe

Age:

34 (Born: 31^st October 1981)

Status:

Married (9 Years), no children.  In a secret relationship with Issie’s character.

Current Occupation:

Professional/Successful Psychology Therapist (5 Years)

Hobbies and Interests:

·         Spending time with my wife.

·         Helping clients however I can.

Where/How do we find Doctor Joe to begin with?

In this performance we find Doctor Joe not keeping a professional standard when meeting with therapy clients.  Due to his struggles, involving his marriage life and the increasing secret placed on his shoulders.  Having received many visits/sessions from one client in particular, Doctor Joe then develops a relationship with this client and sooner commits adultery against his wife.  Later fearing that his wife knows about his secret affairs, he then panics to find out that his adulterer partner knows about his marriage life and wants to put an end to their relationship.  This then shows through Doctor Joe’s lack of professionalism in later sessions with other clients, as he isn’t much help, plus more and more secrets and unfortunate stories result in depression for Doctor Joe.   

Where do we find Doctor Joe as the performance concludes?

At the climax our performance, we find each character confessing to their secrets in an interrogation.  Except Doctor Joe is missing.  This is the result of Doctor Joe’s rising depression and inability to maintain his stress and worries.  All concerning the deep secrets told to him by his recent clients, and his worries of losing his current relationship and receiving divorce papers from his wife.  So to conclude the performance, we find Doctor Joe physically and mentally falling, and we then see him lose all hope as he commits suicide by jumping off the bridge near his work office (the Tallahatchie Bridge).