Acting
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Acting 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.
Members of the First Studio, with whom Stanislavski began to develop his 'system' of actor training, which forms the basis for most professional training in the West.
Two masked characters from the commedia dell'arte, whose "lazzi" involved a significant degree of improvisation.
Antonin Artaud compared the effect of an actor's performance on an audience in his "Theatre of Cruelty" with the way in which a snake charmer affects snakes.
Sam Gibbs and Su Thomas Hendrickson in Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by Ryan Castalia for Stairwell Theater, 2019
Thespis
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Thespis was a stage actor in Ancient Greece. He was born in the ancient city of Icarius. According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, he was the first human to appear on stage
Base for a statue of Thespis in the Theatre of Dionysus, 2nd century BC.
Thespis' wagon, relief of the Giotto's Belltower in Florence, Italy, Nino Pisano, 1334–1336