Abstract

THE ACTOR IN TRADITIONAL INDIAN DRAMA

Dr. Priyam Ankit

Volume: 6 Issue: 2 2016

Abstract:

In drama putative emotions are engendered with the help of actual movement and gestures of actors. A dramatic representation, according to Bharata, has the following constituents: actors, make-up and dresses, movement and gestures of actors, conjuring of fictional personages and situations with the help of bodily movements, suppression of the real nature of actors and the rendering of putative emotions. It can hardly be denied that actors ‘really’ move and perform on the stage but, while in actual situations we move in a common shared space; in drama the acting area marks out the boundary of fictional space. The actor constantly oscillates between real and fictional time in terms of the characteristic autonomy of the latter. In a dramatic work, the actor takes on an alien temperament (parabhava) by suppressing his own nature. The actors are aware that what they are rendering on the stage are not their personal emotions, and to that extent they are detached from them. But, to the extent that it is necessary for them to concentrate on the various nuances of emotive experiences, this concentration is possible only if they imaginatively reconstruct these emotions by internalizing them

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