Up: [[Persona or Mask]] Related: [[Shadow]] Created: 2023-02-17 Updated: 2025-12-18 > [!Orbit] Gabrielle Roth in *Maps to Ecstasy* > The ego is a schlock director who knows nothing but clichés, worn-out routines, and predictable gestures. Each production has all the freshness of a soap opera rerun. (p. 148) The ego can’t stand to be laughed at. So one way to separate from some of the ego’s nonsense is to figure out each [[Persona or Mask]]’s behaviour and then blow them up larger than life. To figure out a persona’s behaviour, tune int your inner monologues. Also your outer voice because that’s what gives the persona its script! ## Persona Characters from one of Gabrielle Roth’s books - Annie Analyze - I.M. Important - Ronnie Resent - Captain Control - Priscilla Perfect - Gladys Gorge - Sissy Spaceout - Judy Judge (or Judge Judy from tv. She’s an exaggerated persona!) - Rita Resistance - Nellie Needy - Lisa Leftout - Peter Plan - Farrah Future - Arnie Anxious ## Some Ideas Play the character to the hilt so I can see it clearly. Exaggerate. Flaunt it. Gabrielle Roth was a dancer so she suggests dancing the characters, noting where they’re comfortable, where they’re resistant, where they move and don’t, where they’re fluid, and where they’re stuck. What parts of my body does each character use and what parts doesn’t it use? An example from Roth is Captain Control — shoulders up, knees tight, pelvis locked, jaw out, elbows in, doesn’t breathe below the neck