With the roles of middle and senior leaders changing, new challenges are also emerging.
With the roles of Mommy, Daddy, and Star Child already taken, Sasha assumed the role of the family's Black Sheep at a very young age.
Nowhere is this overshooting truer than with the roles of the sexes.
Again and again, interchangeability is enacted, as sequences are repeated with the roles of perpetrator and victim swapped.
But with the roles of caregiver and cheerleader thrust upon them, they may feel constrained about expressing their darker feelings.
She is especially associated with the roles of Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, which she first portrayed in 1941, and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.
The two debates in Florida this week paralleled the two in South Carolina last week, only with the roles of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney reversed.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by a military junta until 2011 and is still transitioning to more democratic rule, with the roles of its leaders still evolving.
IN burlesque, in popular prejudice and all too often in the opera house, big-gun German opera comes off as a clash of the titans, with the roles of Brünnhilde, Isolde and Elektra constituting the soprano's triple crown.
But that doesn't mean I necessarily want to see them struggling with the roles of Benedick and Beatrice in the Bard's eternally giddy yet also moving depiction of defenses that collapse to make room for love.
Mr. Singer's version of the battle over the building is as black and white as Charas's, only with the roles of hero and villain reversed: Charas is illegally subletting his property to arts groups, while he waits to renovate two now unusable floors for the good of the community.
