Act I: Other Characters

– The owner of Equus Oils. Joseph has gray hair and wears glasses, and is blind, or so Lula says. He created the XANADU software with Lula and Donald, and has also adapted two of Lem’s plays for. According to the Rust Archives, he owns a 1974 VAM Station Wagon (Mexico City) and created a kinetic sculptural art piece (Elizabethtown) in 1968. Created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" shown in the (text) museum near the Márquez farmhouse. Has a niece who works at the hospital. Named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum ('Weizenbaum' is German for 'wheat tree') who created ELIZA (named after the play's Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist (like the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer); this program had a large influence on the development of text-adventures.– The Bedquilt Ramblers; the basement people and Museum visitors; main (player) characters in "Limits and Demonstrations." They have been seen playing a game underground in the start of the first act, and seen singing songs throughout—according to the developers, they are "like a chorus in Greek or Elizabethan theatre" or "kind of like the choir in a play – they kind of suggest to the audience how to feel, sometimes."– Friend of Joseph’s from College and friend of Lula’s. Walks around with a pair of antlers slung over his shoulder. Carrington is initially looking for an outdoor venue to perform his play, an experimental adaptation of Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man," and is also director of the play in "The Entertainment." References many plays in his conversation with Shannon at the Self Storage in Act III:, andshould– Shannon's cousin. Mysterious. Likes reading. Has a residence at 100 Macondo Lane (a reference to Gabriel García Márquez's novel), a house in front of a barn at the base of the mountain. Weaver left her family after learning of their massive debt. Used to be an intern at the Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces, and previously worked at WEVP, but left on "kind of weird terms." At WEVP, Weaver handled the archives, and had a "head for signals," according to Dashiell. A gifted mathematician; she also speaks Spanish often performed translation work in the past. She was also one of Donald's research assistants in the XANADU project and studied mathematics in University. Presumably the mathematician inventor of The Formula, used at the Strangers' whiskey factory. In Act I, she asks Conway, "Which of your parents was it who wouldn't allow you to watch television?", a nearly-direct quote from Peter Shaffer's play. Weaver is named after scientist and mathematician Warren Weaver and author Gabriel García Márquez.there– A college friend of Joseph and Donald, all of whom were involved in a complicated love polygon. Lula helped to build XANADU, but grew apart from the two after living in Mexico for three years without contacting them. Her installation-based artwork is featured in a museum shown in "Limits and Demonstrations." She is the set designer forand a senior Clerk at the Bureau. Used to own a dog. Lula was born in Elizabethtown but frequented, and loved, Mexico City. She is based on or a reference to William Chamberlain, the author of "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed," the first book written by a computer and quoted by one of the pieces in "Limits & Demonstrations."– Antique shop owner. Ira's widow. Conway's employer and former schoolmate. Likely has Alzheimer's, or is losing her memory. Has a sister in Nashville. Originally sang– Lysette’s deceased husband. Owned a roofing company. Described as wiry, irritable.– Miners working in Elkhorn Mine along with Weaver’s parents, who were archivists. Presumably died in the flooding of the mine.– Shannon's aunt who lives in Knoxville. From Colombia. Married to J. Márquez. Weaver's parents; worked at the University, then later in Elkhorn Mine. At some, she point traveled to Colombia. Her name (just like her cousin Weaver's address) is one of many references toin which two characters are named Remedios.