There's a dreamy actor at the center, Justice Smith, as a rap tyro named Ezekiel; the "Hamilton" fave Daveed Diggs plays Ezekiel's older self, performing lyrics by Nas.
After licking his wounds, he reinvents the number as a boisterous meditation on nostalgia and mortality, the frontman and the band rocking out in period garb, while video screens show clips of his much-younger self performing the same song.
In one of the play's first scenes, Arceneaux himself watches Vereen, played by Frank Lawson, watch his younger self perform on a television, as the live audience looks on.
After letting their imaginations run wild verbally, the kids then drew pictures of their famous selves performing on stage, LIVE!
To characterize viral shedding between visits, anogenital swabbing was also self-performed by participants at home.
Perhaps not surprising, Self often performed better than Pan.
In the HBO series, Ames has combined his writing self with his performing self and created something that is about ego without seeming egotistical.
Mr. Wahlberg's acting seems more a matter of being, while Mr. Bale's appears self-consciously performed.
Two trained raters, who had no information about the students' test scores or self-perceptions, performed the coding independently.
Four self-self hybridizations were performed using the common reference sample for control of experimental background.
