SPECIFIC TOOLS OF ACTING: THE CONCEPT – A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING AND APROACHING CHARACTERS
SPECIFIC TOOLS OF ACTING: THE CONCEPT – A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING AND APROACHING CHARACTERS

Summary/Abstract: Actors are creators. They live on the stage and bring their own world with them. Sometimes, actors canlive under the impression that the inner world of a part is so far away from their personal experience thatthere is no other access path towards the core of the character than creating a substitute, a model thatwould be convincing enough, so that, through imitation, reproduction and simulation of reality, theymight go through with the scene. Some others might think that the simplest way to approach a part is toonly focus on the lines, enveloping themselves in the melody, in an incantation of sorts, thus making thetext, who had in the meanwhile become unclear, to surround them with a kind of fog that gives them thefeeling they experience something real, an actual state. Some other times it happens that actors findphysical actions to fill their own voids. It is a way to hide, and the actions are actually useless, and nonartistic. To find the way to a character one needs, first of all, to discover and understand the logicalmechanism it is built upon, that makes a character what it is.

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