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We’re all forming ourselves through stories we tell about ourselves to others, whether that’s with friends in a pub or shouting our heart out on stage every night. The stories we tell become who we are — self-created “statues trapped in blocks of stone — one must carve oneself out,” as Robert Musil wrote in 2005 The Man Without Qualities. We choose our narrative arc, and in doing this it becomes a form of identity that both shapes and reflects who we are. Performers may be more fragmented than most, as the prism we see ourselves through is further distorted by others’ views of ourselves, and the different sides of our private selves that we make public through our work.
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