From Dr. Brian Sutton-Smith (friend and mentor) on "Reframing the Variabilities of Play" - an informative and delightful catalogue of the varieties of adult play and players:

"...anyone who becomes a professional player such as a comedian, explorer, actor, narrator, athlete, collector, hostess, model, or artist of any kind, inevitably plays with these mental and behavioural play frames at earlier ages, and probably maintains playful accompaniments during their artistic involvement even at the adult stage."

"...a pantheon of play personnae: ranging from the pleasures of nonsense and being funny, to the excitements of real action and discovery, the thrills of mastery and victory, the exaltations of artistic performances, the consummatory pleasures of great stories, the joy of cynosural postures, and the pleasures of multiple peak experiences."