The Morality Plays VIII: Glutton for Moderation

In the eighth of ten Classical Dialogues, Moderation and Gluttony create a commedia dell'arte scene at a banquet for film-star award winners. In envelope-rhymed and blank verse, the Virtue and Vice seek to encourage balance or clowning: Should an actress struggling financially give in to the lowbrow productions that would pay, yet violate her conscious aestheticism? The Chorus of Graces presents the Question at Issue and Judgment, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.