Mąstantis žmogus - aktorius Prano Piauloko amplua
A Thinking Man - the Role of Actor Pranas Piaulokas

Summary/Abstract: The work of Šiauliai Drama Theatre actor Pranas Piaulokas is a unique phenomemon in the spectrum of Lithuanian theatre. However, it is difficult to find an adequate evaluation and place for the sign system of stage art for the phenomenon of this form of art. This is characteristic for other actors, whose place in the common context of stage work asmenybė: is not labeled as some clear aesthetic direction or type of acting system, dabartis depending on the senior director of the theatre, and also from the time period or surrounding factors. The actor on stage and his character being created are the most important, but which is also the least defined sign of stage work, which is full of an endless amount of codes of meaning. In theatre of the 18th-early 20th century, there was a very "powerful" system of acting and the art of drama - an actor's "amplua", or role. According to this system, actors were categorised according to their personal information as kings, heroes, roles with mantles, roles with corsets ,lovers, betrayers, and soubrettes among other roles. A short theoretical summary of drama and the art of acting, desiring to be equal with modern science, is the weakest part of contemporary theatre theory. The phenomenon of acting is to ungovernable for making a system, classification, or categorisation. The semiotic analysis of stage works, according to a linguistic system listing the most minimal units required in forming and systematizing artworks/plays of the stage, normally come up against a wall, which is the act of drama, and the actor's character. This is because the artist, in becoming a sign of stage art, is a real person, a psycho-physical being. He embodies a fictitious character, able to give meaning to concepts of the author, director, scenographer and the very performer, and a range of variations of that concept - endless combinations of words, movements, intonations, looks, pauses, silence and sound. There is a range of variants of a play's authorship that are possible, though they are not easy to decipher, when during a scene the creative work of a director-author, actor-author-director and the audience is at work. If s not always clear who holds the baton, especially in those cases, when we find ourselves with autonomous, strong and energetic art individuals. One of these cases is Šiauliai Drama Theatre actor Pranas Piaulokas, who came to the theatre in 1969 and played more than 70 roles, a large part of which were unforgettable works, characters that had become almost real beings, which accompanied his comtemporaries like people one meets in real life, just that those one meets in the theatre world are more striking, more rounded off, and of a more perfect form.

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