The performer does not wear a mask in this dance and is portraying the character as being heroic.

The audition focuses on how well the performer portrays a character while delivering the monologue.

Two performers portray Duncan.

The piece is slow going at this point, and the conceit that the performers are themselves but also portray actors and a director is engaging but obvious.

Not surprisingly for such a drug-conscious time, the drivers these performers portrayed spoke openly about supplementing their coffee with "little white pills" to stay awake.

There will be struggles with giant vacuum cleaners, and a performer will portray the id captured in plaster.

But at its end, the characters the performers portrayed appeared remorseful and grief-stricken.

The performers, most of them nonprofessional actors, are not portraying their characters.

The skilled performers, who hailed from several nations, portrayed befuddled dancers putting on a show in which everything went awry.

In Latin America and English-speaking countries, most wrestlers (and other on-stage performers) portray character roles, sometimes with personalities wildly different from their own.