„Theatre“ – What a wonderful and easy metaphor for non-theatrical sciences!
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Theatre as a metaphor is applied in contemporary humanities quite often. Anthropologists, sociologists, historians etc. use this metaphor to explain and analyse specific model of situations and actions. The most frequent is the metaphor of the Actor Playing a Role used by the Role Theory in sociology. But does this metaphor reflect the real state of research in the theatre studies? The contribution introduces the contemporary concepts of theatrical acting: Brechtian epic acting, Grotowski “holy actor”, or improv acting. The triadic models of acting are introduced as a defence against a simplification in non-theatrical sciences such as actor-author-inner spectator (I. Vyskočil), actor-text-character (E. Rozik), social identity-personal identity-identity of ego (E. Goffman), or sense of self-being on the stage-being within the role (K. S. Stanislavski). |
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