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Watch the middle-aged men around you.


Watch your dad.





No, really. people haven't changed since the 1500's. Read Jaques' soliloquy in As You Like It (Act 2, scene 7), the ';All the world's a stage'; solioquy, and you can see the very same progression today. The reason that Falstaff is so funny today as he was then is that we simply haven't changed.





So, watch middle-aged men, with their enlarging stomachs and fading youth, some of whom try to convince themselves that they are still as good as they once were (the American country singer Toby Keith has an amusing video entitled ';As Good As I Once Was'; about just this. It's worth seeing:





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Or they are worried about promotions, about being needed or important, their receding hairline.





Someone said one that in youth we gather lumber for a bridge to the moon. In middle age we use it to build a shed in the back yard.





Play someone not as athletic as he used to be and as he'd like to think of himself still being. Play someone with an underlying unease or unhappiness in his life, someone who's jollity is just a little too forced, who's just a little too desperate, someone who realizes that the athlete is younger than he is, now, and the world is passing him by, someone for whom One Good Joke Can Last a Lifetime is true.





Here's one trick: when a middle-aged man sits, often he'll lower himself almost down to the seat, and then let go, falling the rest of the way into the chair. He'll often get up more slowly, too. He'll hate to get down on his knees, and he'll use his hands to help him back up. After being bent over for a bit, he'll grunt just a little when he slowly straightens back up.





While it will depend on the character himself that you play, a little arthritis, a little gout (a painful big toe will be enough for this one), a little too much wine or food, a little too much concern for his own reputation, a little too much selfishness (not much) will do it.





Which character you play will make a difference, too, but if it's in one of the comedies, look at other comedies--old ';I Love Lucy'; shows on DVD, for example, have some great middle-aged-man characters, characteristics that you can use for just about any play, any middle-aged man.





Break a leg.

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