 Despite the differences in the background thinking used in developing their theories, some theater studies and performance theorists have nevertheless held one view in common, namely, that there is a distinct difference between acting and performance. Roughly that difference has been explained this way: when acting one is not being oneself, but one is being oneself when performing. This has turned out to be a troubled explanation. For what then are we to say about the actor in a play—the real, flesh and blood actor (Auslander 1986  [2002])?[1]