WHY DO I FEEL SO AT HOME...

by Jez Bond

…IN A WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE?

There’s nothing like being someone you’re not. It’s more than escapism, more than mimicry. When you inhabit a character, once the initial playing has subsided and the character has been sustained a true understanding of the portrayed individual starts to develop. It’s intense social commentary, it’s making decisions and judgements (whether right or wrong) and ultimately it’s accessing your brain to pull  from information that you never knew existed. It’s enlightening, it’s stimulating, it’s therapeutic. On top of all that there’s the buzz of playing with others in the same bubble, of connecting together on an entirely different level.

I’m not an actor. I have no desire to be – an earlier blog I wrote provides an explicit and brutally honest account of why this is the case. However role playing off stage (in this evening’s case at a dinner party) is quite seriously something I will never be able to live without. There are simply no limits and of course that’s extremely liberating. Role playing isn’t confined to other characters neither is it confined to the present or the past. Oftentimes I speak as myself in the future, looking back at today. Now that’s a whole new topic, which perhaps I’ll share another time. Perhaps I already have…

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