Creating Chris

We needed a villain character who would tempt the character of Rachel and get her not only to communicate with him in the virtual world, but eventually meet him in the real world. For this villain, we don't need a male actor.

It seemed almost too easy for me to create the character of Chris. It took no more then 10 minutes to create a completely false Hotmail account and once Chris had an e-mail address I could sign him up to a whole host of communicating sights on the Internet. Using nothing more then me and the click of a button there is now a virtual character, who to anyone else using the Internet, could be real.

Chris is a performance on all levels. Not only is he a performance in the fact that I created him and we will play him, although he may be perceived as real, he is a character. He is also a performance in that we have decided that his real age is 49 and his appearance rather shabby and unattractive, but, his character is pretending to be 27 and will use a false picture.