6 That makes art fine arts
THEATRE
The theatre like could have observed, constitutes the quite organic one of which his different elements form an indissoluble part. These elements, nevertheless, possess each one characteristics and own laws and, depending on the epoch, of the personality of the director or of other circumstances, it is habitual that grants major relevancy to some or others inside the set. These elements are:
TEXT : The plays are written in first-person dialogues, in which there actions in brackets (called acotacional language).
In the Western tradition, the text, the play, has always been considered the essential piece of theater, called "the art of the word." Since, in a more nuanced way, this orientation is also prevalent in Eastern cultures, it should at least accept as justified such primacy. In this regard must be made, however, two considerations: first, the text does not exhaust the theatrical event, as a play is not theater until it represents, which implies at least the element of performance; Secondly, there are many ways archaic and modern dramatic performances which ignore completely the word or subordinate elements which mime, body language, dance, music, scenic display.
DIRECTION: The personality of the director like creative artist was consolidated at the end of the 19th century, though his figure already existed as coordinator of the theatrical elements, from the scenery to the interpretation. It corresponds to him to turn the text, if it exists, in theatre, with the procedures and aims that are needed. Powerful examples of the above mentioned task were the Germans Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator, dedicating his energy to obtaining of the spectator his maximum capacity of reflection, or the asceticism of the Pole Jerzy Grotowski
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In the modern theater is usually tax naturalistic orientation, in which the actor through acquisition of tangible and psychological techniques and the study of self and character, try to recreate the scene of this personality. Such, in its main features evolved from the teachings of the Russian Konstantin Stanislavski and widespread in the film world, choice is certainly not the only and ultimately choosing an interpretive style of the show depends on characteristics and indications director.
However, currently, at the beginning of the century, theatrical performance with naturalistic trend is being seriously reconsidered.
" to all the elements that allow the creation of this environment, between that it would be necessary to stand out fundamentally to the machinery or intrigue and the lighting. In the antiquity, the scenery was determined to technical and architectural limitations, circumstance that was kept during the whole Middle Ages.