Thespis off

This is really just an act

Have you ever wondered why actors are called “thespians”? It’s because of November 23! Partly, anyway. According to Aristotle, this is the day in 534 BCE that someone named “Thespis” was the very first person to portray a character on stage in a play. If that really happened — and since we’re talking about well over two thousand years ago, when record k…