Intermezzo
Characters in Intermezzo
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Peter Koubek
A 32-year-old Dublin human rights lawyer, the elder brother. Outwardly successful and composed, privately in a suicidal spiral he manages with pills and alcohol.
Ivan Koubek
Peter's 22-year-old brother, a competitive chess player and former prodigy. Socially awkward and reticent where Peter is dominant.
Supporting characters
Margaret Kearns
A 36-year-old arts centre director who meets Ivan at a chess exhibition. Separated from an alcoholic husband, Ricky, and wary of the fourteen-year age gap.
Sylvia Larkin
Peter's former college girlfriend, now a professor of modern literature. A traffic accident left her with chronic pain that reshaped their relationship.
Naomi (Intermezzo)
A 23-year-old college student in a precarious, financially entangled relationship with Peter, supplementing her income by selling explicit photographs online.