About the Actor’s Reality and the Things We See. Can an Actor Create Reality Through Fiction, or Does He Merely Imitate It?

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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2019.1.14

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actor and role, reality and fiction, training, to play

Abstract

In this article, award-winning stage and film actor András Hatházi challenges, from the viewpoint of his prestigious career as an artist and pedagogue, the relationship between actor, role, reality, and fiction. Can the actor create reality through fiction? In order to answer this question, the author turns towards the way children are playing, finding therein both truth, and inspiration.

Author Biography

András HATHÁZI, Faculty of Theater and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. hathazi.andras.bbte@gmail.com

ANDRÁS HATHÁZI is an actor, director, writer, university professor. He has acted in over 100 theater and film roles and has directed several theater and puppet shows. He has published articles on the actor’s art, plays and scenarios in various journals and magazines. Own volumes: Daniló (2004), A hetérák tudománya (2006), Improvizáció és személyiségfejlesztés (2007). He had translated into Hungarian David Zinder's book: Body-Voice-Imagination under the title: Test-Hang-Képzelet (2009). He has over 50 individual and collective national and international awards and nominations including: Jászai Mari Prize (Hungary, 2011), Gábor Miklós Prize (Hungary, 2011), UNITER Prize (2008, 2014), Best Actor Award ex aequo at the International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece (2011), the Debut Prize at the Romanian Writers Union (2005), the Látó Prize for Excellence (2004), the Best International Film Festival (2002), Prize for artistic and pedagogical excellence awarded by "Babes-Bolyai" University (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010).

STUDIA UBB DRAMATICA, Volume 64 (LXIV), No. 1, March 2019

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2019-03-30

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HATHÁZI, A. (2019). About the Actor’s Reality and the Things We See. Can an Actor Create Reality Through Fiction, or Does He Merely Imitate It?. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Dramatica, 64(1), 209–216. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2019.1.14

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Volume 64, No. 1, March 2019

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