role playing
Saturday, July 18, 2009 @ 11:30 am.
[inspired by/ in response to Eleanor's post:
role playing]
We all have our own roles to play.
Why should we play more than what we already have?
To learn?
To teach?
To entertain?
To torture?
To indulge?
To escape?
For those who are good at acting/those who act/those who act so much they get good at it, why do you do what you do?
I play someone else's role for all these reasons.
I learn, by playing something someone else tells me to; sometimes something I've never heard of.
I teach, because sometimes people need to know what's going on, or what went on, or what was going through the head of a certain playwright or another.
I entertain; I make people laugh by making a fool of myself.
I torture, by sending across something so laced with venom that it's a poison without doing anything, even if I don't really mean it to.
I indulge, because it's fun... sometimes.
I escape, because all these roles make up for the fact that I don't really have one.
--
In theatre, there are measures put in place (sometimes) to make sure that people don't lose themselves in their characters.
I once heard of someone that played a really 'bimbotic' character in one of the musicals or plays, and in the end, she herself changed.
Maybe she liked it.
So it is possible to lose yourself. If you want to.
One way to avoid this could be to preserve a little part of yourself in the role you're playing.
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I would never roleplay without an audience.
There is no point.
But... there is always an audience. Somehow.