Tom

To me, I really like how this play is very informal. At the beginning, Tom comes out and directly addresses the audience. He says, "I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it." In a regular Shakespeare play, no actor would come out and talk like they are carrying on a conversation with the audience. There might be soliloquies or speeches that sum up an act or something in the play like Iago in Othello, but never would there be a character like Tom. I feel like this would add an extra dramatic effect to the work as a whole. Here you have a character that addresses you, but also interacts with the other characters on stage. Tom is sort of like the mediator between the audience and the stage characters. He helps us to be more in touch with Amanda and Laura to feel more emotions (and at times to feel more emotions with Tom).