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Online Role-Playing and Acting
Aug. 15th, 2005 03:44 pmSomeone on my flist (god you are all so smart and I love you for it) referred to role-playing as acting.
Never have I agreed more with that than I do today.
In Acting II, we are told that when we are acting, we are doing just that: acting. What we portray on stage, no matter what the emotion is, is the memory of the emotion, rather than the actual emotion. There is no way we could actually feel everything we are portraying. We would explode. (Joni Mitchell: ::begins playing "Woodstock"::) We are taught to put a little bit of ourselves into the character on stage, pieces of people we know, anything to make it more real.
When I'm role-playing, I can't let myself feel everything the character should feel. I have to let myself feel for them without feeling as them. I have to separate what is me and what is them.
Remembering it's fiction would be a great start, also.
Never have I agreed more with that than I do today.
In Acting II, we are told that when we are acting, we are doing just that: acting. What we portray on stage, no matter what the emotion is, is the memory of the emotion, rather than the actual emotion. There is no way we could actually feel everything we are portraying. We would explode. (Joni Mitchell: ::begins playing "Woodstock"::) We are taught to put a little bit of ourselves into the character on stage, pieces of people we know, anything to make it more real.
When I'm role-playing, I can't let myself feel everything the character should feel. I have to let myself feel for them without feeling as them. I have to separate what is me and what is them.
Remembering it's fiction would be a great start, also.