The Actor – The Generator Of Living Narrative Structures And Metaphors

Abstract

The actor during the process of dramatic creation constantly provokes and elaborates compositions through his own body, voice, thoughts and imagination. He becomes a body in action that expresses and incorporates different typologies/characters, imagines and plays out different situations from countless different perspectives, creates physical and mental actions, forms, represents and signifies, elaborates living narrative structures. The creative process can be diverted by blockages that can arise from multiple causes, but above all from a lack of order in the discourse, of rigour, when the work is based on intuitive and chaotic constructions, or when there is a lack of mastery of the means of scenic expression, theatrical techniques and methods, due to the lack of structure, composition and a concrete language and vocabulary. This work aims to emphasise the importance of knowing the components related to technique, of playing in front of an audience in a controlled, supervised, verified but spontaneous way, of understanding and mastering the various compositional principles, language and specific concepts that describe how actors create and organise space, movement, action, communication, etc. These notions form the vocabulary of stage creation and provide actors with clear tools for working, a system for organising and constructing their own work.