This character-driven production features a wide range of fun and innovative characters with interesting character designs. Let’s meet the primary and secondary characters in this family-friendly production:
Primary Characters
TRINA (Protagonist): Trina Grayston – kind hearted bird lover who misses her dad and grandpa
- Kind, 10 year old girl from single-parent family
- Her grandfather and father recently died
- Trina and her mom recently moved to Sonderman
- She longs for her Grandpa’s love and her fathers’ mentorship; she’s seeking to heal her pain and cope with her trauma.
- She attends Sonderman Public School
- Trina is being bullied at school
- She loves art, birds and going for walks and collecting natural objects for her art projects
- Trina loves fanny packs and wearing leggings
- Trina wants to save Sonderman Forest as her grandfather used to take her there as a child
- Trina’s Grandfather and Hank were good friends
- She’s scared of dark spaces and Salamanders
Hank McGrath – Loves forests. He’s the Leader of the seniors’ Wheelchair race
- 75 year old man
- Former pastor of Sonderman Church
- He lives at The Meadow Retirement home
- Has lived in Sonderman all his life
- His wife is deceased
- His kids never visit him
- Has a deep love for God, Jesus Christ and nature
- He wants to save Sonderman Forest and has been fighting for decades to save it
- Hank loves animals, especially endangered species
- His efforts have helped save the forest in the past, until a developer recently bought the lands from the Town
- He is considered the leader of a group of seven seniors, at The Meadow retirement home
Galloway Payton McGregor – tender hearted and funny Scotsman
- One of Hank’s closest friends
- Great sense of humour; loyal and loving friend
- Former Olympic Athlete
- Winner of Caber Toss at Scotland’s Highland Games
- Physically strong, yet gentle
- Excellent musician -plays the Bagpipes, drums, ukulele, piano
- Holds the group of seniors together at The Meadow
- Lonely and often thinks about his family in Scotland
- His life dream is to play the bagpipes at the Highland Games
Ivan Piotre Kuznetsovsky – former Russian commander who fled the Hungarian revolution
- 89 years old
- Lives at the Meadow Seniors Residence
- Refused to kill innocent civilians so he was beaten up by his Russian squadron, who left him for dead
- He was nursed to health by a Hungarian nurse, who he married.
- He fled to Canada and settled in Sonderman
- His wife promised to join him, but she died during the uprising
- He’s very proud, but deeply broken and carries scars. Suffers from PTSD
Muza Alamiyd Azad – The man with the robotic arm
- 75 years old
- Lives at the Meadow Seniors Residence
- One of Hank’s closest friends
- Escaped war in Iran, fled to Canada
- His wife and children died in the war
- Came to Sonderman 15 years ago
- Has prosthetic arm that gets sore
- He likes to stroke his big mustache
- Soft man, warm hearted; lonely
- Loves poetry and singing Persian songs