"I find it quite absurd when an actor dies on stage," says Grigor, "because we know that it's a game of pretend: they're still breathing.
"It has the worst editing, and it's absurd casting that actor -- what's his name -- as a gladiator: you look at him flexing his muscles and you want to laugh.
This is absurd, of course: actors merely speak their lines; they don't invent them.
The absurd rule is one American actor in the West End for one British actor on Broadway.
Given Mr. Tesich's most absurd and lyrical rants, the actor needs to look more deeply into the role.
So I offer a counter proposal to the rather absurd effort recently undertaken by actor Kirk Cameron to distribute to the "top 50 universities" 50,000 copies of Darwin's book annotated with a 50 page introduction of fantasy and falsehoods that seek to dispute the indisputable.
It is also absurd to imply that British actors excluded from the EU would be "outsiders shouting from the wings".
"It is due to the insistence of certain institutional actors on submitting absurd proposals and displaying a total indifference to the recent democratic choice of the Greek people".
A posting Monday on Sohu, another Web portal, read, "Zhou is just one of the actors in this absurd play.
The white actors frequently looked absurd in yellow-face makeup next to genuine Asians, so the studios would cast all the Asian parts white.
And then, of course, there is the doubling inherent in the actor's profession, "this absurd trade in which I have spent my life pretending to be other people, above all pretending not to be myself".
