Did This Happen To All Actors, This Blurring of Borders Between Performance and Life?

ELLA: Am I dreaming?
CLOUDY: Are you sleeping?
ELLA: I had a good day. Don't ruin it
CLOUDY: Am I supposed to say good night?
ELLA: There's no point now, with that moony look in your eyes
CLOUDY: Surely you mean loony
ELLA: The way you wax poetic or Wayne like you're not worthy
CLOUDY: And Alice wonders why she's cooped up in a nunnery
Oh well
A quick hit from a meter stick will drop your words in line
ELLA: Bro
And what you say will give away that Ella-meant, surprise
ELLA: No!

CLOUDY: So here we are for a playdate
ELLA: What? I don't need a playmate!
CLOUDY: I mean, this is an ok date
ELLA: This is an in-no-way date
CLOUDY: Well, we've played around to date
You'll recall your unstaged play
ELLA: If you press play on this reel, for real dude
I'm pressing stop again
CLOUDY: If you're gonna try and make that play
I suspect you'll be stopped short
ELLA: If the umpire's calling me out
I'm gonna strike back with some force
CLOUDY: You're done, Obi-wan, it's a trilogy
You won't make it home by the rule of threes
ELLA: You'll huff and you'll puff but I'll block you with brick
CLOUDY: Third time's the charm, expelliarmus, Flitwick
ELLA: Avada cadaver, your prefects are late
Now you've got word as your only playmate
CLOUDY: Au contraire, Ron frer, you're using to spar
A quidditch pro quo on your nimble guitar

ELLA: Lame!
Tocar y jugar y poner aren't the same
CLOUDY: Un otra for your obra, let's do it again!
It's bien to see that you're using your brain
ELLA: It's bueno to see that you're losing your breath
CLOUDY: Your strings are still smoking, I'm choking to death
ELLA: Not that you'd know it the way that you play
But there's something forgiving in multiple takes
CLOUDY: You take and you take but prepare to refund
You're licked for your licks, play was just station one
ELLA: I'll fight to the end, all the way to eleven
CLOUDY: St Nigel is plugging his ears up in heaven
CLOUDY: Your pacing and your race are lost
You know you've twice been beat
ELLA: It's you who's gonna taste exhaust
Prepare to feel de-feet
CLOUDY: Why are you taking off your shoes?

ELLA: I'm on my toes, I gotta lotta foes to beat
CLOUDY: I suppose your foe is "it" when you're up on your feet
ELLA: I would never flee the scene when I'm out on the beat
CLOUDY: Ok, Watson. Get back to Baker street
ELLA: The baker can take it, I think you better leave
There's too many cooks who can't handle the heat
CLOUDY: I can more than bear heat, whether R or a T
Pull your tail up and exit pursued, end parenthesis
ELLA: Oh no, another burn by the Bard
I can't bear to be beat by the battling star
CLOUDY: The beat in the theatre's more shrewd when it grows
Unless the pause is pregnant—?
Oh!
ELLA: I can't quite see it, but you're making a scene
That's deadpan for me, did you mean—?
You won't pass a poly- unless you're both beat
Prepare for ensnarement!

CLOUDY: You don't expect the detective to do it
ELLA: There are clues in the ruse you can use to intuit
Got a look at the book in your hand; it's well-read
CLOUDY: I am a brain, as Sherlock has said
The rest of me's a mere appendix
ELLA: Your honor, I move to remove the defendant
CLOUDY: Objection, the plaintiff is beating the witness
Miss Clover has clearly put drums on her hitlist
ELLA: Don't be so witless, you see that I'm kitless
My incorporation is none of your business
CLOUDY: I'm having my own corpor-realization
My corpse will be outlived by my creation
ELLA: You wanna be Frank? Put your appendix to work
Write an afterward for your afterword
Start with the art in your head
CLOUDY: And make it into concrete fact
And then when you're gone and dead
ELLA: Artifact will bring you back
CLOUDY: We can fall from the stars and still make an impact
ELLA: If I can survive the landing intact

ELLA: I'm on a new stage, from the voms or the flagpole
But it's staged like she wasn't in the last castle
CLOUDY: You're on a staged stage but you might beat it yet
You can't really know while you're still on the ledge
ELLA: I join them in a twist, I feel like a mannequin
CLOUDY: How'd you get a no 'twixt your body and your sister twin?
ELLA: Neither side's right with a double-edged blade
CLOUDY: One has to deduce when the world's a stage
However improbable, what's left is what's right
ELLA: Those mirroring Marx are a farcical sight
CLOUDY: Life is a ball or a dream or a weight
So grab it from Atlas, take over the place!
ELLA: Planet schmanet, that's not what I'm planning
CLOUDY: You'd settle for village or villa or hamlet?
ELLA: We know where we are but know not where we may be
A game or a place that we beat without saving
CLOUDY: Ophelia there, but if you Den- leave a -mark
You can at least die being true to your heart
And high on a stage, the unknowing people
Will see when you're put on, you're proven most regal

ELLA: Good lord, your own soap box is growing quite feeble
I'm exeunting now, I pray you go with
I've given the axe, it's time that you give
CLOUDY: I'm felled from the stage, now how will I live?
ELLA: Where there's would, there's a way; I'm sure you'll surviv
CLOUDY: Surviv?
ELLA: Just let me hiv this
I'm supposed to go study with Cindra
CLOUDY: Ah, the close contriv'r of your harms
ELLA: No, that would be me, I asked if I could
For all my charms, I somehow double my toil and trouble
CLOUDY: Well, worthy Thane of Verton
How ya gonna turn the stakes before you get burned?
ELLA: There's only one girl who can ease us through this devil's snare
CLOUDY: Akira?
ELLA: It's time for lofi hip hop beats to study slash relax to