An Actor’s Speech Art: the Renovation Technology for Reflexing the Author’s Text
The article proves new theoretical positions of an actor’s speech art, connected with the process of reflexing the author's text. The aim of the study is to discover the origin of the changes in an actor’s speech art and to establish a new attribute for an actor’s speech art, indicating the fact of renovation as a whole and the renovation technology for reflexing the author’s text in particular. The authors of the article used research materials of theatrical workers dedicated to the question of changing the actor’s speech art and also their personal observations. The article emphasizes on losing the unity in views of theatrical workers on an actor’s speech art in the late 20th century. All-Russian recitation competitions are considered as evidence of the break between an actor’s speech art and rhetorical type of speech art, in which an actor appeared altogether only as an agent of an author. Moreover the authors analyzed changes in requirements for participants of recitation competitions and suggest removing the illustrative quality and narration in an actor’s speech art. On the basis of carried out analysis, the conclusions are formulated and conditionality of changes in an actor’s speech art according to the values of sensitive culture is justified. The study focuses on such value attitudes as: “correlating with the reality only the fact that is given by the senses,” “concentrating on the ‘here and now’ perception,” “perception of reality as a process (formation, change, flow, evolution, progress and conversion).” A study established a new attribute for an actor’s speech art, indicating the fact of renovation as a whole and technology renovation for reflexing the author's text in particular. As a new attribute for an actor’s speech art, the authors suggest such feature as “included” should be used to а character.