Some comments in The Little Suns thread got me thinking: what is the Gloranthan experience of drama?
This is a little interesting because of how Gloranthan's experience their religion, compared to our own. On Holy Days they fly to the God's World and experience the god's mythic exploits. Rituals are often magical, this world heroquests, not simply teaching the stories of the gods. Even storytelling in Glorantha can be used as a form of divination as the muse of poetry takes over the teller's tale. Given that our drama seems to have evolved out of the telling of the myths of the gods, through acting them out, would the sacred nature of such telling alter Gloranthan drama. Would you retell the story of the Sword and Helm War in a play, to make a poetic point? Or would this be sacred, and not touched in that way.
And what of comedic traditions in drama?
We know there are poets, puppeteers, and potters. But what of actors?