<p>When i say “principle roles” for drama, how much stage-time are you thinking of?</p>
<p>is this term too general? i want to list my position in drama as someone who played “principle roles”</p>
<p>How major of a character would you say a principle role is?</p>
<p>A main character, ie a title character (Annie in Annie) are a large supporting role (Daddy Warbucks). If you’re onstage for less than half of the play, then you aren’t going to be a principle.</p>
<p>It would also be best to list the roles you’ve had.</p>
<p>^ so when you think of “principle roles” you think of “lead roles?”</p>
<p>cuz i certainly didn’t get any lead roles, but i got speaking roles with names attached to them. and i certainly was not onstage for more than half the play. </p>
<p>but there was one play where there was only one person who had a lot of lines, and a few girls and guys had names and some lines. but the director called everyone who had a name a “principle role” even though we only had about 30 (or less) lines the entire play.</p>
<p>so i call it “principle roles” to dodge the fact that i haven’t actually gotten any leads.</p>
<p>do u think the college officers will be able to see through this?</p>
<p>i think a “principle role” is another name for a “significant role”, meaning, the role includes a name, multiple lines, and an important part in “telling the story”. The lead role is the main actor in a play.</p>
<p>I’d see two cases possibly emerging:</p>
<p>first case is if the play you were in are famous, well-known plays; any shakespearen play or overdone musical and the adcom ppl are surely going to know which characters are well known or not. it’d be clear if your name wasn’t something that rang a bell. for instance, if there was a stage production of “Hamlet” and you weren’t one of Hamlet, Gertude, Claudius, Polonius, laertes, Ophelia or even “the Ghost”, or even one of the funny duo R&G, then hey, its gonna ring a bell. same goes for any other famous play. pretty sure adcom have seen all the plays around and who’s what in them, so thres no point trying to get around it.</p>
<p>if on the other hand if your play was… experimental, maybe some play no one’s ever heard of, you wrote it yourself or somebody else with a really creatiive mind wrote it, hey you could possibly “get away with it”. </p>
<p>in that case, you’d probably add a little description about the “experimental/creativie” nature of the play and whatyou role was.</p>
<p>^ but this is for just my general resume though.</p>
<p>its not especially a “theater” resume.</p>
<p>do i still list all my roles?</p>