This is a useful generalization of wrestling's stage aesthetic, in which the enactment of Suffering, Injustice or Male Pride lost or regained is fully articulated in every masklike grimace and gesticulation.
The play climaxed in a trashing of the set, and featured a tricky enactment of the custom of sabrage, in which the neck of a champagne bottle is sliced off with a sabre.
Whether it is a firing by Donald Trump or a personal attack by Mr. Cowell, each rejection is a symbolic re-enactment of an inter-era struggle in which the bullies always come out on top.
The climax of A Wizard of Earthsea is not the magical shootout that lesser novels would have ended with, but the high-risk enactment of a process Jung called "individuation", in which the warring parts of the psyche integrate into a wiser, stronger whole.
The Australian star was introduced by the compere Des Clarke as part of the re-enactment of a Glaswegian love-story vignette in which the men are courted by chip-munching female suitors.
Last October, the World Congress of History Producers sponsored a conference in Boston in which the issue of historical re-enactments set off a heated panel discussion.
Real-life shots of smashed faces and twisted bodies, accompanied by a soundtrack of whimpers and moans, alternate with re-enactments, in which, canonically, the girl in the passenger seat begs her date to slow down, until finally her pleas become a scream of terror and the screen goes black to the sound of a shattering windshield.
But in doing so, Congress deliberately carved out a 180-day period following the date of enactment in which such collection was specifically authorized.
In that study, published in 2010 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, participants viewed enactments, in which actors played the role of either a experiential or materialistic consumer.
The park comes to life over the Easter weekend, when there are three days of re-enactments in which – in a departure from the usual animated plastic shows – a real-life bearded actor will plough through the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday at timetabled intervals.
