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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 2 / 2020  
         
  Article:   ONE CONSCIENCE OR MORE: IS THE ACTOR MORE THAN ONE AT A TIME?.

Authors:  TUDOR LUCANU.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbdrama.2020.2.12
Published Online: 2020-10-30
Published Print: 2020-10-30
pp. 243-260

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This paper approaches an important theme in the study of actors work: the multiplication of the consciousness, from the perspective of the actor’s training correlated to psychology and neuroscience. We will refer to some of the best known works used in the training of the actor or which have as object of study the art of the actor, namely K. Stanislavsky – An Actor Prepares; Michael Chekhov - To the Actor: On the technique of acting, Lee Strasberg – Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Jerzy Grotowski – Towards a Poor Theatre, Bertolt Brecht – Brecht on Theatre, Denis Diderot - Paradox of the Actor. Conversations on The Natural Son on one hand, and Antonio Damasio’s studies on the self, on the other hand, noting that theories about the cognitive functions of the human brain provide a valuable perspective on the art of the actor, especially by how it applies to the conscious and subconscious of the actor on stage. What happens to the actor while performing? How does the actor process different stimuli to build a character, and then an entire artistic act? What are the roles of the mind and body in the creative process? These are just a few questions that I will try to find answers to, while examining the actor’s multiplication of consciousness.

Keywords: consciousness, actor, character, emotions, images, brain.
 
         
     
         
         
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