The Casting or the Two-Headed Spectator – a give and take process –

Authors

  • Diana ALDEA Babes-Bolyai University, Theatre and Television Faculty, email: dianaaldea9@yahoo.com.

Keywords:

casting, director, actor, limit encounter, emotion, non-verbal language, blocking, attention, observation, neurosciences

Abstract

This paper analyses the process of casting in theatre, by focusing on the actor-director information exchanges. The author starts from the premise that a casting session is, essentially, a theatrical situation with two players who alternate their roles.

Author Biography

Diana ALDEA, Babes-Bolyai University, Theatre and Television Faculty, email: dianaaldea9@yahoo.com.

DIANA ALDEA is a stage and film director, plastic artist, graduate of the Audio-visual Programmes MA of U.N.A.T.C. "I.L.Caragiale" Bucharest (2008), of the section of Stage Directing at the Faculty of Theatre in the Babeş- Bolyai University, Cluj (2004), as well as of the Painting-Restoration specialisation at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babeş- Bolyai University Cluj (2000). Her activity includes theatre and dance performances, directed in the Romania and abroad, teaching and exhibitions, with numerous paintings in private collections in Romania and abroad.

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STUDIA UBB DRAMATICA, Volume 60 (LX), No. 2, October 2015

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Published

2015-10-30

How to Cite

ALDEA, D. (2015). The Casting or the Two-Headed Spectator – a give and take process –. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Dramatica, 65(2), 259–271. Retrieved from https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbdramatica/article/view/4478

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Volume 60, No. 2, October 2015

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