A good line is an art

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The birth of the theater began many centuries ago in ancient times. One of the first actors were cult priests, servants of the gods. With their memorized rituals, which they knew flawlessly, they carried out the action (played roles). Masks, special ceremonial outfits - this is a kind of stage costumes.

The other progenitors of actors were jesters, they also dressed in costumes, sometimes in masks and, like priests, performed their roles throughout their lives. As there are acting dynasties now, then there was also a clan of priests and guilds of jesters. Probably, such a “kinship” created different attitudes towards the actors of antiquity. For the viewer, some actors, as the embodiment of priests, became servants of art, others - frivolous, sometimes rude jokers.

A wordless game

In the beginning, the acting was without words, and later they were called actors, at first they were mimes, imitators. If you think about it - acting and skill is, in fact, a game, imitation, action.

And only after a long time did the first replica of the actor appear. In ancient Greece, not onlyshort scenes of mimes from the life of the townspeople. Entire theatrical performances began to appear with voice-overs of small scenes that forced the audience to experience all the action along with the actors.

The Greeks valued their actors on a par with the Olympic heroes, the best were awarded, gave them gifts. They did not have professional actors, theatrical performances were part of their lives.

The emergence of a profession

For the first time, acting as a profession is mentioned in the deep Middle Ages in Italy. And then it became clear to many that a replica is not only a mastery of the word, but also a kind of oratory. After all, it was not without reason that relations between the theater and the church escalated in those days. Church officials began to call the actors "the devil's heralds".

A replica is in the theatrical sense a dialogue between actors, in fiction it is a statement of literary characters among themselves. In France in the seventeenth century, the main thing in the theater was the word. Plays were written on philosophical themes, actors spent a lot of time memorizing texts so that beautiful consonant speech sounded at the performances, and this tendency, when the word prevailed over the action, can be traced until the nineteenth century.

Actors in all ages have been a wayward and not always predictable people, often, in order to please the viewer, they “forgot” the rules, and then from the stage sounded their dialogue with the audience between the memorized text, prompted by the heart. A replica is a reprise, a dialogue with the audience, this is a new trend of the nineteenth century.

The mostthe twentieth century was favorable to the theater, which gave Russia wonderful playwrights, actors, directors. In the performances of the beginning of the century in many theaters, the audience watched the play only of the main characters, the best lines were written only for them, there was no common ensemble of acting with other actors.

Volumetric productions

Thanks to Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold, these stereotypes of the performance of one actor were broken, they achieved a common ensemble in the performance, when all the actors involved in the performance must show the viewer a picture from the life of the characters. Stanislavsky said that a well-chosen replica is always half the success of a play. Some actors who play supporting roles are most often remembered for a line that fits well into the context. Thanks to the cinema, some actors who have never played the main roles in films have become famous and recognizable only because of well-chosen and played lines.