The Art of Acting as a Specific Logical Mechanism
Keywords:
Ion Cojar, specific logical mechanism, acting, creative proces, conceptAbstract
First and foremost, acting is a specific logical mechanism. As Romanian Director and Acting Professor Ion Cojar stated, an actor must assimilate different concepts and ways of thinking specific for the characters he is portraying. Thus, the actor’s way of thinking is the polyvalent logic—he is both a civilian and Romeo. The founding principle of acting, as Ion Cojar summarizes in Poetics of the Actor’s Art (1996) is that the actor is, at the same time, both himself and another. Creation begins from within, putting “myself in given situations”. Only after discovering one’s own dimensions can one take on “the other’s” dimensions.
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