E114. Casting Yourself in Your Role

Stepping Off Now: Lessons in the Art and Craft of Creativity

I recently saw a play called Women Playing Hamlet (by William Missouri Downs) that explores the idea of playing roles others cast us in versus choosing the roles we play and inhabiting them fully through full knowledge of the self. In this episode I ask the question, why do we hesitate to cast ourselves in the roles of our choosing? Why do so many of us continue to play it safe by not stepping into our identities as writer/musician/artist/etc.? How long are we going to continue on playing the roles other people have chosen for us, or ones we think we should be playing, before we find the courage to cast ourselves in a role for our own fulfillment?

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