Acting Out
	Role-play can be defined in many ways. From make believe games to making fun of people. It’s about fantasy and imagination where a story is involved that creates entertainment. Since ancient times, role playing has been a major activity, in which plays of Socrates and Shakespeare have been told. There are characters, actors and players. Each of them take a role that defines an individual. These individuals are all encountered in theatrical showcases such as plays, movies, and Television shows.
	For plays, the first known role playing, they have a guideline that movies and TV followed when they came to part.  In the olden days plays or stories were told through oral communication, then they began writing things down. These writings became playwrights. From Oedipus Rex and Hamlet to The Christmas Carole and Broadway musicals, plays brought an incredible amount of entertainment to people all around.  Characters as players have become so well known throughout the ages that people watch the plays more than one time.
	In movies actors play the role of characters of a written script during the era of the printing press. Real life characteristics are embedded into a character of a movie script so that the audience can interrelate to the characters of the movies. Many of the movie actors are characters that are beyond the regular person, but they will always have some tiny aspect that will always pull in the audience‘s inner self. Plays of the past have even become movies such as Hamlet, The Christmas Carole, and even some Broadway shows. 
	The TV shows do the same as plays and movies, actors playing the role of a character of a script, but there is a difference. Besides the screen being smaller and the length being shorter, TV shows it’s role-playing in a variety of ways. The reason for this is because of the different types of shows. They have dramas, comedies, sitcoms, talk shows, the news, skit shows like Saturday Night Live; and reality shows. Even if it’s a reality show, the person is still role-playing. They are role-playing the part of a person on a reality show. Playing games and making fun of people is one of the major difference that TV has with movies.
	Besides the world of the rich and famous people, in the real world we do a lot of role-playing. When people are presenting or discussing ideas with other people, they are role-playing. They are playing the role of a very suave and sophisticated person who wants to be heard. There’s also role-playing on a popular holiday, Halloween. Everyone for one night only can be whatever they wish to be. It’s the biggest role-playing night of the year.
	 Being something you’re not is always fun. There are so many different aspects to role-playing that it’s simply amazing how actors can remember their real names. It’s a lot of hard work for actors to get a part, but role-playing is about strategy. Everyone has it because everyone role-plays at least more than once a day. Make-believe is a big part of role-playing and it’s one of the best entertainment of all entertainments.