SPIKED EGGS PODCAST (Season One - Holiday Pilot)
FrogsForLife!!! for Emily Cratchit
Role: Lead
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Emily Cratchit - "Tiny" Tim's mother. Middle-aged, English. A doting mom. She frets over Tim's gambling and ties to loansharks. She's irreverent and "cheeky". She knows full well who Santa Nicola is and doesn't hide her disdain for Santa. Emily serves as a sort of narrator for the episode and confides with the listening audience. Emily will speak with both a working class British accent in some spots and later in a more "posh" PBS narrator style accent (think Julie Andrews in Bridgerton).
We first meet Emily in the recording studio. All other cast members are present and ready to begin recording, and Emily runs in breathless and very late. Her British accent is more average, working class.
We later find Emily interrupting the podcast production, shutting down the power, whispering confidential warnings to the listening audience, and defending her son Tim and his reputation. Her British accent here is again, average, working class.
Lastly, we hear Emily in her "official" role as narrator for the podcast production. Her British accent should be smooth, posh and very "PBS" sounding. (think Julie Andrews in Bridgerton).
- english
- female adult
- british
- british (highbrow)
- british (posh)
- neutral british
(Emily runs into the recording studio breathless, late for production, and speaks to the Stage Manager) EMILY: I'm here. OK? God ! Some people! Relax. You'll live longer. (under her breath) Unfortunately.
(Emily turns away from the Stage Manager and the cast, and in a whispering tone, addresses the listening audience). EMILY: Hello? If you're out there listening to us, a word of warning: This isn't the warm and fuzzy holiday story you might be expectin.' In other words, it's no Christmas Carol. (Beat) And if I can give you one word of advice - Be Careful who you trust. (Beat) Me, I don't trust the lot of them.
(Emily now in her "official" role as narrator of the podcast. She speaks in a posh British accent, as if in a PBS documentary) EMILY: Rudolph. A rival loanshark and Santa's newest nemesis. Crude and mercurial, he's muscled in on a slice of Santa's turf. And wants even more. He calls his associates reindeers. Apparently, it's a Russian or Norwegian reference. According to rumor, one of those reindeer took a bite out of an elf last week in Pine Square. Now, did he actually rip off a chunk of flesh or just push her around? No one is saying for sure. But Santa isn't ho-ho-hoing. She's arranged a tete-a-tete with Rudolph to settle things... Perhaps once and for all.
