A successful replica is an art

The birth of the theater began many centuries ago in ancient times. Among the first actors were cult priests, servants of the gods. They are their learned rituals, which they knew impeccably, conducted the action (they played roles). Masks, special ceremonial outfits are also a kind of stage costumes.

The other progenitors of the actors were jesters, they also dressed in costumes, sometimes in masks and, like the priests, performed their roles throughout life. As now there are acting dynasties, then there was also a clan of priests and a guild of buffoons. Probably, this "kinship" created different attitudes towards the actors of antiquity. For the viewer, some actors, like the incarnation of priests, became ministers of art, others - frivolous, sometimes rude jokers.

A game without words

At first, the actors' game was without words, and they were called actors later, at first they were mimes, imitators. If you think about it - acting and skill is, in fact, a game, imitation, action.

And only after a long time appeared the first replica of the actor. In ancient Greece, not only short scenes of mimes from the life of citizens were played out. Began to appear whole theatrical performances with scoring of small scenes, which forced spectators to experience together with the actors all the action.

The Greeks appreciated their actors on a par with the Olympic heroes, the best were awarded, they were given gifts. They did not have professional actors, theatrical performances were part of their lives.

Appearance of the profession

For the first time mention of acting as a profession in the deep Middle Ages in Italy. And then it became clear to many that the remark is not only the skill of the word, but also a kind of oratory. After all, it was not without reason that the relations between the theater and the church deteriorated in those days. Servants of the church began to call actors "heralds of the devil."

The remark is in the theatrical understanding the dialogue between actors, in fiction it is the statement of literary heroes among themselves. In France in the seventeenth century, the main thing in the theater was the word. Wrote pieces on philosophical themes, 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 to the nineteenth century.

Actors in all centuries have been a willful people and not always predictable, often to please the viewer, they "forgot" the rules, and from the stage the dialogue with the audience sounded between the learned text, prompted by the heart. The remark is a reprise, a dialogue with the audience, this is a new trend of the nineteenth century.

The twentieth century became the most supportive of the theater, which gave Russia wonderful playwrights, actors and directors. In performances of the beginning of the century, in many theaters, the audience watched only the main characters play, the best replicas were written only for them, there was no trace of the general ensemble of the game with other actors.

Volumetric productions

Thanks to Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold, these stereotypes of the one actor's game were broken, they achieved a common ensemble in the game, when all the actors involved in the performance should show the viewer a picture of the life of the characters. Stanislavsky said that a well-chosen replica is always half the success of the play. Some actors playing the second role plan are most often remembered by a replica, which fits well into the context. Thanks to the cinematography some actors, who never played the main roles in the films, became famous and recognizable only because of the well-chosen and played replicas.