The Comicality and the Acting Theory

Authors

  • Claudio Vicentini University of Naples “L’Orientale”

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6590

Keywords:

comic acting practice, detachment technique, transgression, identification

Abstract

In the context of the comic acting still practiced today, the essay distinguishes and studies two practices: one for which the actor distances himself from the ridiculous character he represents (for example, laughing at him), close to the mechanisms of satire, and the other where it adheres entirely to its role, in a way in which the comic distance of the viewer from the character can be combined with identification.

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Author Biography

Claudio Vicentini, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Claudio Vicentini is Emeritus Professor of History of Theater and Performing Arts at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” where he founded and directed the specialist degree course in Multimedia Production: Art, Theater, Cinema. He taught Acting Theories and Techniques at the University of California, San Diego and Los Angeles, and currently directs the international research program “Acting Archives” which collects and studies western area acting treatises and publishes the Acting Archives Review, dedicated to the debate on techniques used in theater and cinema. Amomg other works, he published: L’estetica di Pirandello (Milano 1970), Studio su Dilthey (Milano 1974), The American Political Theatre of the Sixties (New York 1976), La teoria del teatro politico (Firenze 1981), Pirandello. Il disagio del teatro (Venezia 1993), L’arte di guardare gli attori (Venezia 2007), La teoria della recitazione dall’antichità al Settecento (Venezia 2012).

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Published

2019-12-27

How to Cite

Vicentini, C. (2019). The Comicality and the Acting Theory. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (3), 617–640. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6590

Issue

No. 3 (2019): The forms and the days. Representations of everyday life in literature, audiovisual, visual and performing arts

Section

Monographic section II

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