What Is Action In Terms Of Acting?
Action is an idea that begins with Aristotle as tool of the dramatists but it has become most popularly known with actors through the Russian actor, teacher and director Stanislavski. Action is a psychophysical conjunction of psychological want and physical activity. An ‘Action’ is something that you can to do someone else, in this case, to another human being on the stage. Although when looking at the text, one can imagine that we are speaking of one character doing something to another, in reality, those characters aren’t real and only the human beings on stage can do these things to one another. An Action is expressed as a transitive verb. A transitive verb is a verb that can be done to another person, in other words it can be placed between the words I and You and still make sense. Some examples: I convince you I bully you I implore you It is a tactic or strategy that the character uses to try to achieve whatever they goal they seek. However, it is the actor that must be able to do
