The birth of the theater began many centuries ago in ancient times. One of the first actors were cult priests, servants of the gods. They, with their memorized rituals, which they knew perfectly, carried out an action (played roles). Masks, special ritual outfits - these are some kind of
stage costumes.Other progenitors of the actors were jesters, they also dressed in costumes, sometimes in masks and, like the priests, played their roles throughout their lives. As there are acting dynasties now, then there was also a clan of priests and the jester guild. Probably, such a "kinship" created a different relationship with the actors of antiquity. For the viewer, some actors, as the embodiment of the priests, became servants of art, others - frivolous, sometimes rude jokers.
Wordless game
At first, the actors ’play was without words, and they began to call them actors later, at first it was mimes, imitators. If you think about it - acting and mastery are, in fact, a game, imitation, action.
And only after a long time did the first replica of the actor appear. In ancient Greece, not only short scenes of mimes from the life of citizens were played out. Entire theatrical performances began to appear with the voicing of small scenes that made the audience experience all the action together with the actors.
The Greeks valued their actors along with the Olympic heroes, awarded the best, gave them gifts. They did not have professional actors, theatrical performances were part of their life.
Occurrence of a profession
First mentioned about acting as a profession in the Middle Ages in Italy. And then it became clear to many that the replica is not only the mastery of the word, but also a kind of oratory. Indeed, it was not without reason that relations between the theater and the church were aggravated in those days. Ministers began to call the actors "heralds of the devil."
A replica is a theatrical understanding of a dialogue between actors, in fiction it is a statement of literary heroes among themselves. In France in the seventeenth century the main word in the theater was. They wrote plays on philosophical topics, the actors devoted a lot of time to memorizing texts, so that beautiful harmonious speech sounded in the performances, and this tendency, when the word prevailed over the action, can be traced back to the nineteenth century.
In all ages, actors were wayward and not always predictable people, often to “please” the audience, they “forgot” the rules, and from the stage, then, between the memorized text, a dialogue with the audience sounded between the memorized text. A replica is a reprise, a dialogue with the audience, this is a new trend of the nineteenth century.
The most favorable to the theater was the twentieth century, which gave Russia wonderful playwrights, actors, and directors. In the performances of the beginning of the century in many theaters, viewers watched the game only of the main characters, the best cues were written only for them, there was no general ensemble of the game with other actors.
Volumetric productions
Thanks to Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold, these stereotypes of the play of one actor were broken, they achieved a common ensemble in the game, when all the actors involved in the performance should show the audience a picture of the life of the characters. Stanislavsky said that a well-chosen line is always half the success of the play. Some actors who play supporting roles are most often remembered by a cue that fits well with the context. Thanks to the cinema, some actors who have never played the main roles in the films became famous and recognizable only because of well-chosen and played replicas.