I like to play human beings in the gutter".
(Apparently black people in Georgia in 1931 had no problems of their own.) But supernatural is not much better than subhuman: Hollywood is still, in the year 2000, disinclined to let black actors play human beings.
It is a comedy starring 400 prawns, who play human beings eating in restaurants; attending church, a wedding and a funeral; playing the piano; boxing; giving birth; performing surgery; lining up for an episode of "Antiques Roadshow"; and landing on the moon.
On television, women don't usually play grownup human beings; they play slightly oversize children, helpless and pouty, driven by appetites they can't possibly understand.
"People want to play because human beings want to be human beings and we are the only species on Earth that loves to play".
"People want to play because human beings want to be human beings — and we are the only species on Earth that loves to play".
Their use, like the first-act Victoria doll in Caryl Churchill's "Cloud 9," goes beyond gimmickry; the children gain their humanity, and are finally played by human beings, after their critical emotional injuries, and their push into adulthood.
Football is not perfect, never has been and never can be, because it is played by human beings.
In the original production, the horse and the donkey were played by human beings.
