How can I hide and show actors in python

So there’s this game I’m making and I have the play button as an actor, how do I make it so that when I click it, it disappears? Using pgzero on windows.

PS: I have everything down but the disappearing part.

playbox = Actor("playbox")
createbox = Actor("createbox")
customizebox = Actor("customizebox")
choose_quiz = Actor("choosequiz")

mainboxes = [playbox, createbox, customizebox]

playbox.move_ip(200, 250)
createbox.move_ip(200,360)
customizebox.move_ip(200,470)  
choose_quiz.move_ip(0, 0)

def draw():
    
    playbox.draw()
    createbox.draw()
    customizebox.draw()  

def on_mouse_down(pos):
    #i need 'playbox' to dissapear when I click it
    if playbox.collidepoint(pos):
        print("working")
        screen.clear()
        screen.blit("choosequiz", (0, 0))

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Method 1

You should use list to draw Actors

def draw():
    for item in mainboxes:
        item.draw()

And now you can remove playbox from mainboxes to remove it from screen

def on_mouse_down(pos):
    global mainboxes

    #i need 'playbox' to dissapear when I click it
    if playbox.collidepoint(pos):
        print("working")
        screen.clear()
        screen.blit("choosequiz", (0, 0))
   
        # keep boxes except playbox
        mainboxes = <div class="su-box su-box-style-default" id="" style="border-color:#000000;border-radius:3px"><div class="su-box-title" style="background-color:#333333;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px">This is box title</div><div class="su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px"></div></div>

        # or 
        if playbox in mainboxes:
            mainboxes.remove(playbox)

And if you add actor again to mainboxes then it will be displayed again.

BTW:

With normal PyGame you could keep objects in pygame.sprites.Group and it has function to simply remove object from this group – object.kill()

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