Talk:Actors' Guild
Link to the Fool's Guild?
Just a thought but in The Truth it's stated Charlie (Vetinari's double) had entered the Guild of Actors and Vetinari foresaw a happy career for Charlie as a Vetinari-impersonator at children's parties and the likes. In Raising Steam on the otherhand Charlie is described as a clown, doing puppet shows and clowning when not officially taking Vetinari's place.
Considering this suggests he is indeed doing children's parties it raises a small question as where to draw the line between the guilds.
Come to think of it, using Roundworld as an example, many comedians are also actors [or is it many actors are also comedians?] (Catherine Tate, Billy Connolly, Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Jim Carrey, Steve Coogan, Simon Pegg, Robin Williams, Charlie Chaplin, Armstrong and Miller, the boys of Monty Python: the list goes on and on!).
Historically there is also a blurring of the lines, with things like 'Commedia dell’arte' - which scarily went on to influence that unlawful act known as miming!