#playacting

[medeaft]

Evil Baron Clive (originally: A gonosz Kornél báró) 2025 Watercolour on paper

Here is a character from my childhood: Clive Crocodile, from Edward and Friends. He is currently participating in a play he put on together with his friends; he is, as you can see, playing the wicked baron, and I loved how he was obviously really enjoying himself in that villainous role.

I made his costume and the stage props just a touch more elaborate than in canon, but I wanted to keep the spirit of it.

[howifeltabouthim]

It was a role she was playing . . . And she would play it through to the end.

Joyce Carol Oates, from The Falls

[the-bitchinest]

YALL I NEED MONOLOGUE RECCOMENDATIONS

criteria: three to four minutes long (roughly 600-800 words)

Really FUCKING silly

any age rating

Published and performed as an irl play

no musicals :(

Easy to add expression to

Gives ‘shitpost’

iF A PERIOD DRAMA

is really open to interpretation

gives ‘shitpost’

[adrasteiax]

Yesterday's gone, and we shall dig its grave.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Playacting in “Moscow In The Plague Year” [translated by Christopher Whyte]

[plathicism]

He, in some senses, was the author of this drama and he had waited in the wings a long while for this moment, when he could step onto the stage and assume the role he’d written for himself: cool but friendly; hesitant; reticent with details; bright, but not as bright as he really was.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[lostintowords]

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automate of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soulmate, because we don’t have genuine souls.

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

[adrasteiax]

(...) Love, waiting, without a word.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Playacting in “Moscow In The Plague Year” [translated by Christopher Whyte]

[adrasteiax]

for whiteness of snow, I gave this heart

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Playacting in “Moscow In The Plague Year” [translated by Christopher Whyte]