Role-playing

In role-playing, participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. Role-playing is like being in an improvisational drama or free-form theatre, in which the participants are the actors who are playing parts.

Related Topics:
Improvisation - Theatre - Actors

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Note that confusion can occur in translations between English and French, where the name "jeux de rôle" is applied both to game and psychodrama.

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