playacting
- n the performance of a part or role in a drama
- v perform on a stage or theater
- Last week in the African nation founded by American freedmen, one Paul Dunbar cast himself in the role of John Wilkes Booth; he was not playacting.
- They're not, of course, and so the show can never quite escape the sense of playacting.
- While a number of things are at work when this happens, the most important is playacting and the valuable rehearsal for later life it provides.