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     Role  playing is a helpful way of  achieving  certain
economies in cooperative human efforts.   The existence of
an implicit script frees the player of the  responsibility
to make up all the roles in real time.   Many of the roles
were created at a former time and now are merely acted out
by  present actors.   This leaves persons free  to  direct
their   creativity  to  new  questions  relating  to   new
problems.     Traditional  problems  may  be  solved   via
traditional techniques.   Role playing is a helpful way of
facilitating the solution of such real problems.

     There are, however,  perverted forms of role playing.
Imagine  a  stage  performance  in which  each  actor  was
playing  a role from a different script.  The actors would
of course be very insecure in their various roles, because
there would be nothing to tie them together.  If they were
compulsive  actors  they could not stop to  analyze  their
situation so as to try to create a basis for integrity  in
their  collective behavior.   They would continue  in  the
insecurity of their random read-outs and act-outs of their
disparate   messages  and  actions  originating   in   the
differing  scripts.  They would puzzled and frustrated  by
the  failure of each other to play the other roles in  the
script in hand.   It would be enough to drive most insane.
Yet,   such  is the nature of the stage of  life  to  many
persons who find themselves on it.

     It  is difficult for a set of actors who have not met
before to put on a performance that has integrity; this is
especially  true if they do not have complete scripts  and
they do not know where their director is.  Some may try to
improvise.   Others  may attempt to stick to  the  partial
script.  Others may try to call the director to get him on
stage  to direct the play.   The whole thing can be  quite
difficult if the director refuses to come on stage, except
within the forms of the actors.

     In  such  a  situation  many  actors  are  likely  to
disagree  about the nature of their roles.  Some may think
they  know  their  roles well and wish to  act  them  out.
Others  may feel that they must create their own  role  as
they  act.   Some may  feel that it is their role to write
the script for others to read  and  act.   Some may assume
the responsibility of trying to figure  out  just what the
situation is.  The actors will, of course,  be in trouble,
so long as they do not enter into authentic dialogue.

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