Facial expressions and complex hand gestures known as mudras are also used to express the different rasas. ... Pantomimic gestures and foot movements are used to represent certain stock characters such as warriors or comic figures. ... Body posture, vocal intonations, and facial gestures are relied upon to communicate the actor's moods. ... Many important aspects of the play are conveyed by the actor's subtle gestures. ...

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Students use their voices, facial expressions and hand gestures to interpret characters in scripts or stories. ... As a teacher, you might take not that a student is trying to get into the script lines, by interpret characters through attitude, gestures, and expressions. ...

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Depending on the area of origin of the drama, for example, movements might be very simple and easy to learn, or they may be very complicated and complex systems of hand gestures and eye expressions that take years to learn. ... Depending on the style of Indian theatre chosen, it might be necessary for actors to go on special training sessions to learn the methods and meanings of hand gestures and eye expressions. ...

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I feel it would be appropriate for this part to be played on the main stage as the gestures and reactions are very dramatic therefore need a large space to have an impact. ... Dramatic hand gestures would also be used to emphasis the rejection. ...

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According to Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher who wrote about metaphysics, rhetoric, and so on, "Tragedy- is "a representation of an action which is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude "in language which is garnished in various forms in its different parts "in the mode of dramatic e...

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Hay Fever was a comical play with a strong message. The actors throughout this play steadily used others to gain their own attention. The message this play left behind after many laughs was do not use others, plain and simple. The space was a well-constructed thrust stage however, the stage was not ...

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In Russian theater, Anton Chekhov is an icon of modern naturalism. His plays, like his stories, are studies of the spiritual failure of characters in a patrician society that is inevitably destabilising. With its high point around the 1880's naturalist theatre, having roots in 18th century realism b...

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