The Art & Craft of Acting - The Language of the Stage is Action

"That for which we locate words is one thing currently dead in our hearts. There is often a type of contempt in the act of speaking."... Friedrich Nietzsche

The above quote, by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, I think, has one thing to say about 'acting' and the use of words in dramatic functionality. Words can separate us from the practical experience and from the emotion not only in the theatre but also in life.

Words, or extra precisely the spoken word, derives which means and communicates beyond the literal which means of the word on the web page. The spoken word, when spoken by an actor, communicates a which means and depth and resonates a truth and a humanity that is sooner or later received by the receiver - the audience.

I think that superior actors have to have to have an appetite for words. There is practically nothing improved for an actor than a properly-written play. A fantastic playwright, irrespective of whether consciously or unconsciously, derives which means not only in the words themselves but also in the way the words are place down on the web page. A fantastic playwright is capable to facilitate an actor's operate by engendering and bringing forth a rhythm in dramatic writing by the way, by the order, in which the words are place down on the web page. What communicates beyond the word or words alone and creates emotion in dramatic functionality is the actor's potential to uncover, to step into the rhythm inherent in the text.

RHYTHM IS EMOTION - EMOTION IS RHYTHM.
A excellent actor has the potential, has the talent to unlock the which means and emotion in a dramatic piece of writing by detecting and uncovering the rhythms in the writing. For the actor this capacity is not an intellectual course of action.

A superior piece of music is dead on the web page and requires an instrument - a piano, and a player - a pianist, to take the music off the web page. A fantastic piece of dramatic writing desires an instrument - an actor, to take the dramatic writing off the web page and transpose the word(s) into the language of the stage - that is ACTION that is EMOTION.

Words are vital. The decision of words and they way they are place down on the web page creates rhythm and rhythm creates emotion. The actor's capability to unlock the rhythms, and as a result communicate the dramatic which means, in the text is a outcome of what and how he/she does and not solely reliant on the way the words come out of the actor's mouth.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE STAGE IS ACTION & EMOTION.
An actor will need only unlock the rhythm in the written text and step into that rhythm by means of his/her Undertaking. The Undertaking will create the emotion and the emotion will communicate beyond the speaking of the word. ... PETER SARDI Melbourne Australia 13 April 2010

Peter Sardi has been acting in all 3 mediums of Film, Tv and Theatre for thirty years. In 1980 Peter started a series of workshops for actors to additional discover the teachings he had studied earlier in America. Peter has acted in several Tv dramas as properly as appearing in numerous Australian Function Films. Peter Sardi continues to teach and discover dramatic art at his College Of Acting in Melbourne Australia. For additional details please go to: http://www.petersardi.com