Role (redirected from sick role)

role, r?le

1. a part or character in a play, film, etc., to be played by an actor or actress

2. Psychol the part played by a person in a particular social setting, influenced by his expectation of what is appropriate

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Role 

(1) A personage in a drama or screenplay and the corresponding character embodied by an actor in a stage production, film, or radio play. A role may be comic, tragic, dramatic, or tragicomic, and principal or secondary. A walk-on is a role without spoken lines or one with lines amounting to two or three sentences. An incidental role is one occurring in a single episode of a production, for example, the Horn Player in Gorky’s Egor Bulychov and the Others. In the musical theater a role is the same as a part.

(2) The lines assigned to one of the characters in a play or film.