playacting
Noun
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The performance of a part or role in a drama (synset 100549363)
is a type of:
- activity - any specific behavior
- performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance
subtypes:- characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal - acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
- impersonation, personation - imitating the mannerisms of another person
- method, method acting - an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed
- dumb show, mime, pantomime - a performance using gestures and body movements without words
- business, byplay, stage business - incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
- skit - a short theatrical episode
- hamming, overacting - poor acting by a ham actor
- heroics - ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct
- reenactment - performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time
- roleplaying - acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy)
is a part of: performance - the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment
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