ὂψις/ОПСИС νѕ. ТЕАТАРСКА ПРЕТСТАВА
ὂψις/Sight vs. Theater Performance

Summary/Abstract: This essay deals with visualization during reading of a dramatic work and also with the theater performance itself - the play, and as a subject of analysis I took the the following plays: “Oedipus the King” - Sophocles, “Hamlet” - William Shakespeare, “The Cherry Orchard“- Anton P. Chekhov’s “Waiting for Godot” - Samuel Beckett and the “Who the fuck started all this” - Dejan Dukovski. Dealing with the contradictions between the reading of the play and the visualization (ie. the text: dramatic and textual language, symbolization, composition of arbitrary signs) on the one hand, and the theater (ie, visual: acting, value of stage, scenery and stage images) on the other. The main subject of this essay is to analyze the process of visualization of the play while reading versus, watching and feeling the power of the theater performance and throughout the differences between this two processes to convince the reader that the power of the theater performance is far more greater than the power of his own imagination.

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