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Wouldn\'t the distinction between person and persona become blurred there, too, and perhaps maintained only by conventions and rules of courtesy rather than any real doubt about what the actor or playwright means by this word or that action? You can have a good idea of how much a performance is indebted to the experience of the living human being behind the mask because reputations are so transparent and the community is so small. And maybe the experiences being portrayed are community experiences, things that have affected everybody you know within living memory. Should the listeners assume they can tell the difference between reality and fiction? Should we allow ourselves to feel like we somehow know the people involved - soooo tempting? Or should we treat the voices in their aspects as personas only, assuming that we don\'t know what\'s going on and therefore must treat everything as though it were staged, like a play?įor comparison\'s sake, think about the birth of theater, when all theater was \"community theater,\" where everyone knows everybody else, the actors are nodding acquaintances and maybe the playwright is your uncle\'s drinking buddy. This discussion does highlight one of the risks of podcasting or blogging about one\'s life, though, and putting that part side-by-side with fictional characters and scenarios.

But I don\'t feel like I\'m looking at people crying wolf one too many times. If it is fake, then Oscars all around, and I raise my dramatic filters just a little bit more. Star-crossed love and a broken heart happens to everybody. But on reflection I think that this kind of heartache is, on the whole, far more plausible in general than the idea of a person throwing away decades of treasured sobriety on a cheap, nasty bottle of tequila just for a lark.