Lesser actors often depict mentally unbalanced characters by rolling their eyes or making strange body movements that generally have an unintended comic effect.
The show often cast non-professional actors in minor roles, distinguishing itself from other television series by showing the "faces and voices of the real city" it depicts.
Here, actors in South Korea depict the Epic Struggle against the Wind on the set of "Jeon Woo-chi" ("The Taoist Wizard"), directed by Choi Dong-hun.
In Beverly Cleary's "Ramona's Bad Day," actors depict Ramona's very crummy day, when she is forced to eat a pot roast sandwich and act like a dog.
In what appears to be a revue within a play, two South African actors (in this production, Fana Kekana and Tsepo Mokone) depict laborers waiting for their passbooks and work permits.
The Renegade will open its season with "Becoming Memories" by Arthur Giron, in which 10 actors, playing 25 roles, depict five Middle West families, spanning two generations.
In one scene, actors depict a duel on horseback battle between the revered halberd-wielding general Guan Yu of the novel Three Kingdoms and another fighter.
Sitcoms and crime shows have jumped onto the bandwagon, too: an actor who is a paraplegic, for instance, depicts a member of the casino surveillance team on "Las Vegas."
Yet while the actors on the stage were depicting this "fantasy" every TV and newspaper in the land was discussing the exact same species of mass zombie behavior.
The comedian and actor depicts a man's anticipation of the birth of his grandchild.