"When would you know from what rubbish verses grow, without knowing shame
"once wrote Anna Akhmatova. Such a statement is true not only of poetry, but also of theatrical art. Of course, by" litter "you need to understand those components that are necessary for each specific performance at the time of its creation and presentation: on the rug in the yard, on the platform, stage in a theater building or square.
Instruction manual
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At the heart of any performance is an idea that is most often framed in written text. He can be anything. The classic literary text for the play is a play written by a playwright. But, besides this, it can be any literary work or documentary evidence of which one person — a scriptwriter — or a creative group creates dramatization: adaptations for the scene.
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Music, painting, choreography, elements of architecture, circus and cinema - all these types of art, or, in other words, the means of expression used in the plays, woven into his canvas and combined together, also become the stage text.
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So, theatrical art is a combination, unity, synthesis of the most various elements drawn from other areas of art. But the main expressive means in the theater, of course, is the actor: an actor in drama, opera, ballet or puppet theater.
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Such a unity occurred from the very onset of theatrical art, whose origins originate from folk festivals, both pagan and to the glory of the many gods that inhabited the lands of the Sumerians and Babylonians, ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans.
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Not a single celebration could do without dancing, music played on flutes and other ancient instruments, singing and versification. Their combination occurred naturally and spontaneously, since only through vivid expressiveness could one reach the ancient gods who owned the minds of people who lived long before our era. 534 BC is considered to be the origin of the art of the theater of the kind in which it, gradually evolving, has reached our days.
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Modern theater is diverse and varied. He is free to attract expressive means that may be necessary for each particular production. Contemporary theatrical art can be either very technically sophisticated, or fundamentally simple - ascetic. It all depends on the will of one person - the director. It is he, guided by the ideas of staging and his vision, determines the need to attract certain expressive means.
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The use of 3D projections, television and movie episodes, vocal fragments of various genres in dramatic performances and dramatic performances in opera or ballet productions, a variety of complex lighting and musical equipment that can become not just technical accompaniment, but also part of the performance - from everything this may consist of a modern play created by the director's idea, fantasy and will.
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However, the modern stage action may be different: the audience will only be an artist who uses a minimum of expressive means in an artistic decision - his voice, plastic, possibly text and (or) music.
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