Kūrėjas ar atlikėjas? Aktoriaus vaidmuo režisūriniame diskurse
A Creator or a Performer? The Role of an Actor in Director's Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The article approaches the creative work of an actor from the point of view of auteur thèâtre practices: the role of an actor is seen as an integral component of director's text and the impact of individual mise en scène strategies on acting is analyzed. The text claims that unlike in the theatre of logocentristic model where the actor as an embodiment of a dramatic character is considered to be the central element of performance, the auteur thèâtre strictly confines the individual artistic expression of an actor to director's discourse. The article discusses how the creativity of an actor is affected by the fact that his primary task, instead of developing the part of an individual character, is now to compose and perform the acting score as part of director's text of performance. The object of analysis is the work of actors in the trilogies of performances by the most prominent Lithuanian stage directors Oskaras Koršunovas and Eimuntas Nekrošius, manifesting both individual ways of articulating director's text and distinctive patterns of actor's expression within director's discourse.

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