A key rule of theatre is that the King is never played by the actor playing the King, but by all the other actors around him.
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A key rule of theatre is that the King is never played by the actor playing the King, but by all the other actors around him.
Interpretation is the process by which the audience becomes an active participant in the drama.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Who can produce the desired effect? Who can obstruct it? Who are the consumers or users of our product? Who will be impacted by it? These are the actors who can influence the outcome.
Gojko Adzic • Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects
In his classic book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman suggests that in our daily lives we are like characters in a play: We take on roles and present a front. Accordingly, what we say and do during a social interaction is like a script. Goffman says that it is easier to stay in character than to react authentically. When we act an
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I have been enamored with Samo Burja’s notion of a live player for a while, which he contrasts to a dead player. From his Great Founder Theory:
A live player is a person or well-coordinated group of people that is able to do things they have not done before. A dead player is a person or group of people that is working off a script, incapable of doin... See more
A live player is a person or well-coordinated group of people that is able to do things they have not done before. A dead player is a person or group of people that is working off a script, incapable of doin... See more
Peter Limberg • Becoming a Live Player
Most performers play a version of themselves on stage, often taking 2-3 key characteristics of their true selves and amplifying them to create a sort of easily accessible avatar for an audience.
Brian Miller • Three New People: Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities
So what is character? Action is character; a person is what he does, not what he says. Film is behavior. Because we’re telling a story in pictures, we must show how the character acts and reacts to the incidents and events that he/she confronts and overcomes (or doesn’t overcome) during the story line. If you’re writing your script and sense your c
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