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Acting for Two, which is about an actor playing multiple roles in a work, is a Trivia item. Loads and Loads of Roles, which is about an actor playing a ton of roles in a work, is not. Currently, 27/204 (~13%) LALOR wicks are under the Trivia namespace. I am of the mind that this should be refiled under Trivia.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 6th 2023 at 3:18:25 AM

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#1: Jun 3rd 2023 at 4:30:40 PM

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Acting for Two, which is about an actor playing multiple roles in a work, is a Trivia item. Loads and Loads of Roles, which is about an actor playing a ton of roles in a work, is not. Currently, 27/204 (~13%) LALOR wicks are under the Trivia namespace. I am of the mind that this should be refiled under Trivia.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 6th 2023 at 3:18:25 AM

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#2: Jun 3rd 2023 at 4:37:38 PM

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#3: Jun 3rd 2023 at 5:12:07 PM

Acting for Two covers "more than two roles in the same work" as well. Maybe merge Loads and Loads of Roles into it?

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#4: Jun 3rd 2023 at 5:15:37 PM

There are certainly works that live and die on an actor with not just two but a dozen roles (shout out to you Orphan Black) but I do question the dividing line between the two. The caption on Loads and Loads of Roles already refers to Eddie Murphy, whose example is the image on Acting for Two.

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#8: Jun 3rd 2023 at 6:16:06 PM

Yeah, I don't see how this is different aside from mere quantity. Merge.

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#13: Jun 3rd 2023 at 8:02:26 PM

oh if I didn't make it clear before, merge[tup]

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#15: Jun 4th 2023 at 3:47:11 AM

The original YKTTW linked on the archived discussion seems to be lost, but the original title was "Acting for Twenty" just to hammer home The Same, but More implications (and that's still in the first line of the description).

On the other hand, the only remnant of the original YKTTW I've found proposed it as a theatre trope where the need to switch between roles and costumes on the fly is a practical consideration, though that had already been weakened post-launch. That might be a viable subtrope to Yard.

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#18: Jun 5th 2023 at 1:27:17 AM

We can safely merge this.

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#20: Jun 5th 2023 at 10:14:16 AM

[up]5 Maybe, though for now, the costuming and role changes in theatre can be added to Acting for Two. There's already a bit about the economic considerations.

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#21: Jun 6th 2023 at 1:17:53 AM

Calling in favor of merging with Acting for Two.

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#23: Jun 7th 2023 at 8:56:54 AM

Knocked out 50ish wicks[nja][up]. Since Acting for Two doesn't have on-page examples we can just redirect the page, right?

Edited by Synchronicity on Jun 7th 2023 at 12:59:20 PM

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#24: Jun 7th 2023 at 10:13:21 AM

[up]Yes, so I redirected it.

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#25: Jun 7th 2023 at 10:41:00 AM

I hope other tropers aren't going to interpret "for two" literally, in that case.

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