There’s a difference between playing your role and identifying with your role. When you’re in the world and of the world, unseen forces drag you around like a rag doll, a hapless victim of your own critical flaw. When you’re in the world but not of the world, you have shifted your primary awareness from on-stage character to in-audience observer, so now you can see danger lurking from your perspective that your character can’t see from theirs. “Don’t set the gun down, you idiot,” you scream internally. “The killer is in the closet,” you silently shriek. “Switch the cups around again,” you implore, but to no avail.