Sometimes, when we're acting out some absurdly sexy and sexist scene, we break out laughing -- it's fun to explore these taboos.
In the last two, concentrating on adolescence and its agonizing mysteries, the music and dancing mostly stop, as the setting becomes the drawing room of an English manor, cheesily suggesting an amateur theater company performing Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap," replete with absurdly melodramatic acting.
If one of the secrets of successful stage and film acting is seeming to be unwatched — also known, absurdly, as "looking natural" — the secret to Hale's video-game acting may be disguising the fact that she is reading lines first seen only minutes beforehand and for which she has been given comparatively little context.
Lang is a politician with no political convictions, absurdly touchy about references to his student acting skills.
And yet Julie Walters has an absurdly large slew, a clutch, of worldwide red-carpet awards for her acting – Baftas and Emmys and a random Olivier or two simply piled up from 1980 (Educating Rita) onwards – and is 61, and not blonde, nor particularly leggy nor predicated to flashing her chest.
Stokes and Barber were the victims of an absurdly unrealistic plan put forward by the megalomaniac Lord Ryder of Eaton Hastings, who was acting not only as an adviser to the Government but also as chairman of the newly constituted Enterprise Board.
The dimension of imaginative fantasy in acting, so stressed by the great Russian teacher Michael Chekhov, has been sidelined into what is absurdly called "physical theatre" - as if theatre could ever be anything but.
Even Zelda Fitzgerald who at an absurdly young age saw herself hailed by the media as the original American flapper, was acting principally on the impulse not to be like all the "little women" in her home town of Montgomery.
