THE MENTAL RESOURCES OF THE ACTOR - A BRIDGE BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION
THE MENTAL RESOURCES OF THE ACTOR - A BRIDGE BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION

Summary/Abstract: Under the empire of imagination, the actor has the opportunity to re-create reality under a new appearance, in this way he offers to the viewer another aspect of already known phenomena. Beyond what he experiences consciously, in the situation of everyday reality, the actor also activates some kind of springs belonging to the subconscious, which lead to the appearance of certain forms of expression, necessary for the construction of the literary character addressed. Thanks to the actor's art, these forms of expression are intended to improve the message encoded in the literary text and transmit it, without altering it, to the viewer, exactly as it was conceived by the author of the text. In carrying out his creative effort, the man-actor needs that the empathy, observation of the world to which he belongs and of the surrounding phenomena and the attention given to the senses, to connect him to reality, the final goal being his dedication to give life to the representations and ideas formed. With the help of self-focusing, he becomes his own sculptor of his affective universe and desired behaviors, and the character displayed gets to "live" through his being, to reveal his feeling, to show himself through free manifestations, illustrated truthfully. ,,Mirror-neurons” have a decisive role in the artistic process of the human-creator: he demonstrates his ability to reproduce memorized images, lived events or to animate feelings and attitudes, having as a starting point those feelings description, a situation in which emotional intelligence is like a trigger engine. Once the message of the literary text has been accurately decoded and fully understood, the actor's permanent concern in the presentation of his character is to assume responsibility for everything he will interpret, without drawing limits between his real persona and the fictitious one he has created.

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