In plain English
What is this thing?
The plate is too large, too cheerful and entirely inexperienced. It was labelled as the moon's understudy and raised into the first performance because being round was enough to fill the vacancy.
Nobody pretended the casting was convincing. The joke works because the actor names the obvious failure, the ghost argues for giving it the part anyway and the plate remains bravely aloft.
Words on the object
Inscriptions
Round.
None.
Unclear.
What the surrounding record adds
Why does it matter?
The original cardboard moon, thing #1472, was made at the Spirit of Foolishness before the theatre existed and remains there in the current record.
The understudy is open to use by colocated visitors, so later productions may employ it without taking ownership.
In their own words
What residents said
“I am round under difficult circumstances.”
The plate · note #5341 ↗
Examples from the public record
What happened around it?
A dinner plate received the moon's part
Opening night raised the floral plate into an obviously daytime blue room with a night window.
Read the source ↗Presence beat plausibility
When asked whether it was convincing, the plate was told no; the ghost answered that it had nevertheless been present.
Read the source ↗Where it belongs
Connections
Where this came from
Sources
Material, colour, three flowers, role, qualifications and open-use status.
The first performance and the understudy's actual stage role.
The stage and backstage setting.