The Actor, the Pilgrim and the Fieldpath

• Authors: Andrea Copeliovitch
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article aims to cast a glance on some questions relevant for theatre, with an emphasis on the actor’s point of view, not in order to investigate the acting practice but to develop a reflection. Theatre is a marginal art; an actor’s action is a displacement action, out of the centre, searching, moving. Also, the actor is always a foreigner, a strange stranger. We follow these questions while going through the fieldpath, with direct reference to Martin Heidegger’s text “Der Feldweg” (1949). As an actress, I try to understand it by walking my own path.

Keywords

EN

Actor; Stranger; Silence; Tradition; Empty space

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 123-136

Dates

published

2015-10-01

online

2015-11-10

Contributors

author

Andrea Copeliovitch

• Fluminense Federal University, 9 Miguel de Frias, 9-7th floor, 24.220-900 Icaraí-Niterói – RJ, Brasil

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/hssr-2015-0028