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132 relations: Accent (sociolinguistics), Actor, Affect (philosophy), Agon, Alea (Greek soldier), Amateur theatre, Anne Bogart, Another Year (film), Antonin Artaud, Aristotle, Art, Audition, Bertolt Brecht, Biomechanics (Meyerhold), Bob Hoskins, Camera, Capri, Catharsis, Character (arts), Child development, Classical Greece, Code (semiotics), Commedia dell'arte, Conflict (narrative), David Magarshack, Declamation, Demonstration (acting), Denis Diderot, Devised theatre, Dialect, Diegesis, Dithyramb, Drama, Drama school, Dramatic convention, Dramaturgy, Elizabethan era, Enactment (psychology), Epic theatre, Eugenio Barba, Fabel, Factor analysis, Félix Guattari, Film, Game, Gestus, Glynne Wickham, Greek chorus, Heart rate, History of theatre, ..., Homo Ludens, Identification (literature), Ideology, Imagination, Improvisation, Improvisational theatre, Indeterminism, Jacques Lecoq, Jerzy Grotowski, Joan Littlewood, Johan Huizinga, Keith Johnstone, Konstantin Stanislavski, Latin, Lee Strasberg, Lists of actors, Man, Play and Games, Maria Knebel, Mask, Maxim Gorky, Medieval theatre, Meisner technique, Method acting, Michael Chekhov, Mike Leigh, Mime artist, Mimesis, Mode (literature), Moscow Art Theatre, Mr. Turner, Musician, Naples, Narration, Neva Boyd, Not / But, Old English, Paradox of the Actor, Patrice Pavis, Physical theatre, Physiology, Play (activity), Play (theatre), Playwright, Poetics (Aristotle), Presentational and representational acting, Psychological stress, Psychotechnique, Public speaking, Radio, Rehearsal, Rhetoric, Richard Boleslawski, Roger Caillois, Sanford Meisner, Secrets & Lies (film), Semiotics, Sign (semiotics), Simulation, Snake charming, Speech, Stage combat, Stage fright, Stanislavski's system, Stella Adler, Surrealism, Television, The Theatre, The Theatre and its Double, Theater (structure), Theatre, Theatre director, Theatre practitioner, Thespis, Uta Hagen, Vera Drake, Vertigo, Viewpoints, Viola Spolin, Voice projection, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Western culture, William Shakespeare. Expand index (82 more) »
Accent (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation.
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Actor
An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.
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Affect (philosophy)
Affect (from Latin affectus or adfectus) is a concept, used in the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza and elaborated by Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, that places emphasis on bodily or embodied experience.
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Agon
Agon (Classical Greek ἀγών) is an ancient Greek term for a struggle or contest.
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Alea (Greek soldier)
According to the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville, Alea was a Greek soldier of the Trojan War who invented the dicing game tabula.
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Amateur theatre
Amateur theatre, also known as amateur dramatics, is theatre performed by amateur actors and singers.
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Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart (born September 25, 1951) is an American theatre and opera director.
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Another Year (film)
Another Year is a 2010 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Lesley Manville, Jim Broadbent, and Ruth Sheen.
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Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.
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Art
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
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Audition
An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Biomechanics (Meyerhold)
Biomechanics was a system of actor training developed by Vsevolod Meyerhold.
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Bob Hoskins
Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor.
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Camera
A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.
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Capri
Capri (usually pronounced by English speakers) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy.
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Catharsis
Catharsis (from Greek κάθαρσις meaning "purification" or "cleansing") is the purification and purgation of emotions—particularly pity and fear—through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration.
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Character (arts)
A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).
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Child development
Child development entails the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.
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Classical Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (5th and 4th centuries BC) in Greek culture.
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Code (semiotics)
In semiotics, a code is a set of conventions or sub-codes currently in use to communicate meaning.
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Commedia dell'arte
(comedy of the profession) was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italy, that was popular in Europe from the 16th through the 18th century.
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Conflict (narrative)
In works of narrative, conflict is the challenge main characters need to solve to achieve their goals.
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David Magarshack
David Magarshack (23 December 1899 – 26 October 1977) was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best known for his translations of Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol.
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Declamation
Declamation or declamatio (Latin for "declaration") was a genre of ancient rhetoric and a mainstay of the Roman higher education system.
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Demonstration (acting)
'Demonstration' is a monstration that serves as proof in storytelling.
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
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Devised theatre
Devised theatre - frequently called collective creation - is a method of theatre-making in which the script or (if it is a predominantly physical work) performance score originates from collaborative, often improvisatory work by a performing ensemble.
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Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
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Diegesis
Diegesis (from the Greek διήγησις from διηγεῖσθαι, "to narrate") is a style of fiction storytelling that presents an interior view of a world in which.
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Dithyramb
The dithyramb (διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god: Plato, in The Laws, while discussing various kinds of music mentions "the birth of Dionysos, called, I think, the dithyramb." Plato also remarks in the Republic that dithyrambs are the clearest example of poetry in which the poet is the only speaker.
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
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Drama school
A drama school, stage school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university; or a free-standing institution (such as the Drama section at the Juilliard School); which specializes in the pre-professional training in drama and theatre arts, such as acting, design and technical theatre, arts administration, and related subjects.
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Dramatic convention
Dramatic conventions are the specific actions and techniques the actor, writer or director has employed to create a desired dramatic effect/style.
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Dramaturgy
The word Dramaturgy, is from the greek δραματουργέιν 'to write a drama'.
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Elizabethan era
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
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Enactment (psychology)
In relational psychoanalysis, the term enactment is used to describe the non-reflecting playing out of a mental scenario, rather than verbally describing the associated thoughts and feelings.
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Epic theatre
Epic theatre (episches Theater) is a theatrical movement arising in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners who responded to the political climate of the time through the creation of a new political theatre.
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Eugenio Barba
Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936 in Brindisi, Italy) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark.
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Fabel
Fabel is a critical term and a dramaturgical technique pioneered by the twentieth-century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.
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Factor analysis
Factor analysis is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved variables called factors.
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Félix Guattari
Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Game
A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.
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Gestus
Gestus is an acting technique developed by the German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.
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Glynne Wickham
Glynne William Gladstone Wickham (15 May 15 1922–27 January 2004) was a British Shakespearean and theatre scholar.
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Greek chorus
A Greek chorus, or simply chorus (χορός, khoros) in the context of Ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, and modern works inspired by them, is a homogeneous, non-individualised group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the dramatic action.
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Heart rate
Heart rate is the speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (bpm).
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History of theatre
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years.
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Homo Ludens
Homo Ludens is a book written in 1938 by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga.
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Identification (literature)
Identification is a term used in literary and film studies to describe a psychological relationship between the reader of a novel and a character in the book, or between a spectator in the audience and a character on screen.
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Ideology
An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.
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Imagination
Imagination is the capacity to produce images, ideas and sensations in the mind without any immediate input of the senses (such as seeing or hearing).
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Improvisation
Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.
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Improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.
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Indeterminism
Indeterminism is the idea that events (certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or not caused deterministically.
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Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq (December 15, 1921 – January 19, 1999), born in Paris, was a French actor, mime and acting instructor.
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Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Marian Grotowski (11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was an innovative Polish theatre director and theorist whose approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today.
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Joan Littlewood
Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop.
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Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga (7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
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Keith Johnstone
Keith Johnstone (born February 22, 1933) is a British and Canadian pioneer of improvisational theatre, best known for inventing the Impro System, part of which are the Theatresports.
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Konstantin Stanislavski
Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; p; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strasberg; November 17, 1901February 17, 1982) was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner.
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Lists of actors
The following are lists of actors.
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Man, Play and Games
Man, Play and Games is the influential 1961 book by the French Sociologist Roger Caillois, (French Les jeux et les hommes, 1958) on the sociology of play and games or, in Caillois' terms, sociology derived from play.
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Maria Knebel
Maria Osipovna (Iosifovna) Knebel (Мари́я О́сиповна (Ио́сифовна) Кне́бель; 1 June 1985)For dates before the Soviet state's switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in February 1918, this article gives the date in the New Style (Gregorian) date-format first, followed by the same day in the Old Style (Julian) date-format (which appears in square brackets and slightly smaller); this is to facilitate comparison between primary and secondary sources.
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Mask
A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment.
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Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в or Пе́шков; – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky (Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
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Medieval theatre
Medieval theatre refers to theatrical performance in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century A.D. Medieval Theatre covers all drama produced in Europe over that thousand-year period and refers to a variety of genres, including liturgical drama, mystery plays, morality plays, farces and masques.
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Meisner technique
The Meisner technique is an approach to acting which was developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner.
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Method acting
Method acting is a range of training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners, principally in the United States, where it is among the most popular—and controversial—approaches to acting.
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Michael Chekhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner.
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.
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Mime artist
A mime or mime artist (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor") is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
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Mimesis
Mimesis (μίμησις (mīmēsis), from μιμεῖσθαι (mīmeisthai), "to imitate", from μῖμος (mimos), "imitator, actor") is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.
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Mode (literature)
In literature and other artistic media, a mode is an unspecific critical term usually designating a broad but identifiable kind of literary method, mood, or manner that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre.
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Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr (МHАТ)) is a theatre company in Moscow.
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Mr. Turner
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Musician
A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.
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Narration
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.
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Neva Boyd
Neva Leona Boyd (February 25, 1876 in Sanborn, Iowa – November 21 1963 in Chicago) was an American sociologist.
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Not / But
'Not / But, or the "not…but" element, is an acting technique that forms part of the Brechtian approach to performance.
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Old English
Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Paradox of the Actor
Paradox of the Actor (Paradoxe sur le comédien) is a dramatic essay by Denis Diderot elucidating a theory of acting in which it is argued that great actors do not experience the emotions they are displaying.
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Patrice Pavis
Patrice Pavis (b. 1947) was Professor for Theatre Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK), where he retired at the end of the academic year 2015/16.
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Physical theatre
Physical theatre is a well-known genre of theatrical performance that encompasses storytelling primarily through physical movement.
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Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.
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Play (activity)
In psychology and ethology, play is a range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated activities normally associated with recreational pleasure and enjoyment.
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.
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Poetics (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Poetics (Περὶ ποιητικῆς; De Poetica; c. 335 BCDukore (1974, 31).) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.
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Presentational and representational acting
Presentational acting and the related representational acting are opposing ways of sustaining the actor–audience relationship.
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Psychological stress
In psychology, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure.
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Psychotechnique
Psychotechnique forms part of the 'system' of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal developed by the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski.
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Public speaking
Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Rehearsal
A rehearsal is an activity in the performing arts that occurs as preparation for a performance in music, theatre, dance and related arts, such as opera, musical theatre and film production.
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.
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Richard Boleslawski
Richard Boleslavsky or Richard Boleslawski (February 4, 1889 – January 17, 1937) was a Polish theatre and film director, actor and teacher of acting.
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Roger Caillois
Roger Caillois (3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games, play as well as the sacred.
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Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997), also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique.
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Secrets & Lies (film)
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.
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Semiotics
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.
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Sign (semiotics)
In semiotics, a sign is anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the interpreter of the sign.
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Simulation
Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system.
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Snake charming
Snake charming is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake by playing and waving around an instrument called a pungi.
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Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon.
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Stage combat
Stage combat or Fight choreography is a specialised technique in theatre designed to create the illusion of physical combat without causing harm to the performers.
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Stage fright
Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia which may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, whether actually or potentially (for example, when performing before a camera).
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Stanislavski's system
Stanislavski's system is a systematic approach to training actors that the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski developed in the first half of the 20th century.
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Stella Adler
Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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The Theatre
The Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse in Shoreditch (in Curtain Road, part of the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London.
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The Theatre and its Double
The Theatre and Its Double (Le Théâtre et son Double) is a collection of essays by French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud and published in 1938.
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Theater (structure)
A theatre, theater or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed, or other performances such as musical concerts may be produced.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is an instructor in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production.
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Theatre practitioner
Theatre practitioner is a modern term to describe someone who both creates theatrical performances and who produces a theoretical discourse that informs his or her practical work.
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Thespis
Thespis (Θέσπις; fl. 6th century BC) of Icaria (present-day Dionysos, Greece), according to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of speaking as him or herself).
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Uta Hagen
Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was an American actress and theatre practitioner.
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Vera Drake
Vera Drake is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan.
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Vertigo
Vertigo is a symptom where a person feels as if they or the objects around them are moving when they are not.
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Viewpoints
Viewpoints is a technique of composition that acts as a medium for thinking about and acting upon movement, gesture and creative space.
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Viola Spolin
Viola Spolin (November 7, 1906 — November 22, 1994) was a theatre academic, educator and acting coach.
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Voice projection
Voice projection is the strength of speaking or singing whereby the voice is used loudly and clearly.
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Vsevolod Meyerhold
Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meierhold; 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.
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Western culture
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Acting technique, History of acting, Off book, Off-book.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting
