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Acting Styles

Acting Styles. Fourth Wall: and imaginary wall between the audience and the actors. Presentational: actors look at the audience and speak to them directly. Representational: Actors are supposed to be living real lives that the audience is observing. More Genre’s. Commedia dell’arte

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Acting Styles

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  1. Acting Styles

  2. Fourth Wall: and imaginary wall between the audience and the actors. Presentational: actors look at the audience and speak to them directly. Representational: Actors are supposed to be living real lives that the audience is observing.

  3. More Genre’s • Commedia dell’arte • Based on standard Plot Outlines call Scenario’s • Uses standard characters call Stock characters • Uses masks and specific movements • Pre-curser to modern day improvisation

  4. Comedy of Manners • Deals with the vices and follies of the upper class. • Uses satire and flattery • Character are restrained and use verbal comedy (lot’s of witty interplay) • Characters use bows and curtsies and hand and facial gestures

  5. Realism vs. Romanticism • Romanticism: • Drama emphasized heroism and sentiment, extraordinary characters and melodramatic plots. • Actors used large, overly dramatic, and symbolic gestures

  6. Realism vs. Romanticism • Realism • Realists create the appearance of ordinary reality in theatrical works. • Actors attempt to actually become characters movement is not exaggerated • Sets are very detailed and look “like the real thing”

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