Character Breakdown: APPROPRIATE Cast Unpacks Their Roles

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I play Toni Lafayette, who is essentially the matriarch of the family

the executor of the estate. And what I love about her, there are too many things to mention

but she's incredibly fierce. She's funny. She has a lot of grit, tenacity

and she has a big heart, actually. I play Beau, who's the middles of the three siblings

And, you know, he's the seemingly stable one, the one who seemingly has everything together

And I really have such a great arc in this play. It took me a while to sort of figure out, you know

who this guy was and why he was so interesting to play

But once we figured that out, I really think he's a really intriguing, relatable character

He's very complex. He's very unconscious in a certain way. And really trying to find his way through something

I really think he wants to do right and to be better

And I love that about him so much. Yeah, I love his earnestness in that pursuit

Well, I play River, and I brought a little her tonight because I'm like, I got to do another show tomorrow

So I'm trying to make these. They're fake, but I'm trying to make them last

But, hey, they look kind of cool with this. It's fine. She is Michael Esper plays Franz

and she is Franz's fiance. So she's not one of the siblings, but she's kind of an outsider on the Lafayette family

And she has a very different perspective than everyone else. And I think she easily could be written off

as just like this kind of hippie, vegan, flower child. But especially in the second act

you see there's more to her than meets the eye. And actually, her perspective is quite a beautiful one

and one that is maybe one of the most sane amongst everyone else

I don't know. Yeah. I play Rachel. So I'm the, I play Corey Stoll's wife

and he's the brother, the middle child. And I love her because she's an outsider to this family

She has a different perspective that I think only when you're not in the family

are you able to see. And I love that. And I think she's so

comes in together, comes in trying to make it work. And you slowly get to see her decline as the play goes on

And I love that she gets to break with the rest of them. Yeah

Yeah, I mean, I play Reese, and I love that he's so unabashedly struggling

I mean, I think, you know, it's all in the writing and on the page

but to see a young man who's really trying to discover himself and also find his place

within his own family, I think is something I definitely related to. But also just to remind people

that no matter what age you are, there's a lot worth trying to figure out

I play Cassidy, who is one of the youngest characters in the play

which I think is really incredible because it offers such a unique perspective

on the issues and the topics being discussed. So I hope that other teenagers and other young people

will be able to kind of see this character and hopefully understand her journey

and see a little bit of themselves in her