Speaking of Acting today most of us agree, that actors, like other artists, are practicing the specifics of an art form, not a slavish adherence to nature or so-called real life. Heeding Hamlet’s advice to the players, they hold the mirror up to nature and perfect the mirror image, the representation of nature. Continue Reading
Theory of Theatre
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The Actor’s Art and the Estrangement in our Age
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Absent presence of illusion and present absence of the picture from the pictorial symbols of the theatre to the virtual symbolisation of the real
The problem of the existence or not of a reality, which outside the dimension of the intelligent subject, that is, the relationship of the subjectivity of conscience and the objectivity of the world, comprises an issue lending itself to a multiplicity of approaches and dimensions such as ontology, gnosology, psychology and metaphysics, neurophysiology and sociology. Continue Reading
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Heinz-Uwe Haus, «Search for a memory of discontinuous fragments»
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Reflecting upon European identity, we not only remember our history and look ahead towards future developments, but we also engage in forms of analysis that bring into play normative standards by which actual developments are judged in view of unrealized possibilities. Life is a dream and the world a stage. Continue Reading