Toogood's Role In The Play Essay

In the University of Florida production of Puffs, Marissa Toogood had a brilliant performance Toogood effectively played her role as a shy, frightened Puff. I found it funny when she danced with herself at the dance. She had her arms wrapped around her torso so that her hands appeared to be another person’s hands who was dancing with her. While this could might been interpreted as someone actually being there in the same way that the mop represented Ron, I saw this as Toogood’s character thinking she should do what everyone else was doing. Her tactic to achieve the want of fitting in in this scene was comical. Toogood did an excellent job making her character look frightened in the scene where the Puffs grouped together and chanted “We are not a threat.” To look frightened, Toogood bent her knees as in an
At times where the spells did not work because Megan’s mother did not know how to use them, Toogood would immediately show frustration. This childlike frustration coming from a villainous character was hilarious. In one case, she said “Hi!” like the Puffs do. She immediately tried to suppress the word that just came out of her mouth and was frustrated. What is more, after showing childlike frustration, Toogood would snap back into an excessively villainous character. This side of Megan’s mother was comical in that she tried hard to make it evident that she was evil. When she pointed the wand, she would make a face of absolute hatred. Also, her evil laugh was very obviously just that, an evil laugh. This dynamic of trying to be evil and failing was present when Toogood walked into the bleachers, said some evil last words, but could not leave and had a casual way of saying something to the effect of “moving stairs, ha-ha”. It was funny to see a character try very hard to be evil and fail especially since it was ironic that this character was who Megan looked up to so