Truth and Temporality - Points of Intersection Between Actor and Character
Truth and Temporality - Points of Intersection Between Actor and Character

Summary/Abstract: Starting from a saying of Steinhardt, "the meaning of truth this is: truth exists, but it has a time and a space in which it is really truth"1, the intention is to outline a perspective on how the concept of truth overlaps or, in any case, works with the idea of temporality on stage. Historical time reflects tensions, rhythms and meanings that offer insights into the pulse of society, but also directions of interpretation. Theatre reflects time and takes up, in one way or another, ways of both propagating and receiving stage discourse. The idea of truth on stage proposes to the actor a permanent questioning of the way he treats the acting instruments, because the actor repeats gestures, texts, states; and often, what yesterday could be considered truth, today seems suspicious. How does time construct and de-construct the feeling or concept of truth for the actor?

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