Presentational and representational actingPresentational acting and the related representational acting are opposing ways of sustaining the actor–audience relationship. With presentational acting, the actor acknowledges the audience. With representational acting, the audience is studiously ignored and treated as voyeurs. In the sense of actor-character relationship, the type of theatre that uses 'presentational acting' in the actor-audience relationship, is often associated with a performer using 'representational acting' in their actor-character methodology.
Harold PinterHarold Pinter, né le et mort le à Londres, est un écrivain, dramaturge, scénariste et metteur en scène britannique. Il a écrit pour le théâtre, la radio, la télévision et pour le cinéma. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 2005. Harold Pinter naît dans une famille juive du faubourg populaire de Hackney à Londres. Il s'y familiarise avec la langue populaire et le cockney qu'il mettra plus tard à l'honneur dans ses pièces. Son père était tailleur pour dames.
Spectacle vivantLe spectacle vivant se caractérise par la coprésence d'actants (ceux qui donnent à voir et à entendre) et d'un public (ceux qui ont accepté de voir et d'entendre). En cela, le spectacle vivant désigne de nombreux modes d'expression artistique, de la représentation à l'improvisation : le théâtre, la danse, les arts du cirque, les arts de la rue, les arts de la marionnette, l'opéra, le spectacle de rue et la musique live.
ActingActing is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an Actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode. Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-developed imagination, emotional facility, physical expressivity, vocal projection, clarity of speech, and the ability to interpret drama. Acting also demands an ability to employ dialects, accents, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat.
Comédiethumb|150px|Sculpture représentant Thalie, muse de la comédie, dans le parc de Pavlovsk, à Saint-Pétersbourg. La comédie (du grec κωμωδία) est un genre littéraire, théâtral, cinématographique et télévisuel fonctionnant sur le registre de l'humour. Née dans l'Antiquité grecque, elle est devenue un genre littéraire qui s'est épanoui de manière diversifiée en fonction des époques. Avant Molière, elle était dévalorisée comparée à la tragédie. Prise au sens large du terme, la comédie n'est pas systématiquement axée sur le registre comique (divertissement, légèreté, rire, etc.
Star de cinémaA movie star (also known as a film star or cinema star) is an actor or actress who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in movies. The term is used for performers who are marketable stars as they become popular household names and whose names are used to promote movies, for example in trailers and posters. The most prominent movie stars are known in the industry as bankable stars. In the early days of silent movies, the names of the actors and actresses appearing in them were not publicized or credited because producers feared this would result in demands for higher salaries.
ClownUn clown, pitre ou paillasse est un personnage comique de l'univers du cirque. Visages disparaissant sous le maquillage, vêtus de façon spectaculaire, les clowns se partagent traditionnellement en « Augustes » et en « Clowns blancs ». Cependant, d'autres formes de clown, décrits dans les chapitres "La comédie clownesque" et suivants, existent en dehors du cirque depuis le XVIe siècle.
Stanislavski's systemStanislavski's system is a systematic approach to training actors that the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski developed in the first half of the twentieth century. His system cultivates what he calls the "art of experiencing" (with which he contrasts the "art of representation"). It mobilises the actor's conscious thought and will in order to activate other, less-controllable psychological processes—such as emotional experience and subconscious behaviour—sympathetically and indirectly.
High cultureIn a society, high culture is the subculture that encompasses the cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteem as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy, which a society consider representative of their culture. In popular usage, the term high culture identifies the culture either of the upper class (an aristocracy) or of a status class (the intelligentsia); high culture also identifies a society’s common repository of broad-range knowledge and tradition (folk culture) that transcends the social-class system of the society.
PantomimePantomime (ˈpæntəˌmaɪm; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser extent) in other English-speaking countries, especially during the Christmas and New Year season. Modern pantomime includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy and dancing. It generally combines gender-crossing actors and topical humour with a story more or less based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or folk tale.
