Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Performance Styles in Theatre
- PRESENTATIONAL
- Actor’s acknowledge the audience by
breaking the fourth wall
- Theatrical (dramatic and often
exaggerated)
- No attempt to hide that there is
an actor on stage, performing
for an audeince
- What can you look for?
- Direct Address (Narrator)
- Multiple time frames (flash
back/cross cutting)
- Tableaux (freeze frames)
- Transformation (changing characters)
- Exaggerated and stylized movement
- HOODS
- REPRESENTATIONAL
- Actors give an illusion that the audience is
watching a representation of life.
- This style of acting is mostly in realistic plays
- Actor’s do not acknowledge the audience
- What can you look for?
- Fourth wall is established (audience)
- Linear narrative (clear beginning, middle and end)
- Actors wear authentic costumes
- Realistic set and props used