Characteristic features of the upbringing of modern actor
Authors: Yevsyukov Yu.S. 
Published: June 2019

In the time of changing global norms and rapidly developing technologies, modern theatre constantly evolves, adopting new theatrical forms; many of these emerged at the turn of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. In this regard, it is appropriate to talk about the formation of the new creative individual, the modern actor in contemporary theatre. Higher educational institutions, for both theatrical and cinematic professionals, should be aimed to develop not only highly qualified and competitive experts, but also creative individuals. As society is constantly evolving both culturally and spiritually, a contemporary artist has to be prepared to mirror this and progress their own style in respect to these considerations. Therefore, in this article we draw attention to the key characteristics in educating the modern actor. The objective of the study is to answer some of the topical questions relating to students mastering of acting; an attempt was made, focusing on the most important components of the profession, such as the authenticity of playing, improvisation, inspiration, actor’s personality, to concretize the features of the creative image of the contemporary stage master and his theatrical teacher. The methodological basis of the study includes the works of M. Knebel, K. Stanislavsky, M. Chekhov, and a number of other outstanding practitioners and theorists in the performing arts space. It also references studies, articles and publications of modern theatre teachers: P. Bruck, A. Vasilyev, E. Grotovsky, N. Zvereva, D. Livneva, P. Pavi. The results of the research. The Ukrainian theatrical art has always been emotional, lyrical, and sincere. Such his features exist as if out of time. So it was in the era of Schepkin, Solenik, Rybakov, Kropivnitskyi and Staritskyi. These qualities also are characteristic of today’s performing style. Therefore, drama teachers primarily pass on knowledge of traditional psychological theater. However, not forgetting the values of traditional learning, they also master other teaching methods, introducing students in theory and practice to the modern theatrical process, thus adopting the global theatrical language. Compulsory and integral parts of modern theatrical education are various techniques of stage speech and vocal, psycho-technique, methods of control over mental processes. The article also examines the practical skills gained during drama and stage speech lesson and their importance emphasizes, as well as the role such fundamentals features of scenic art as trueness, persuasion of playing, improvisation and inspiration, also an actor’s individuality. It is necessary to conscious that authenticity, trueness of actor’s playing has a great power over the audience. Working on the authenticity of acting, a pedagogue should understand what a student thinks about, how he responds and what he feels while staying in a role of one or another character. The basis of live theatrical playing is also improvisation. The student must distinguish the improvisation onto a scripted line from the poorly rehearsed acting. For professional theatre, it is inappropriate to use the latter type of improvisation, because it can lead an actor away from the role and the stage director’s decisions and deteriorate the spectacle. Therefore, rehearsals should always precede improvisation. Another component typical for creative professions is inspiration. This is the emotional actor’s resource, which is characterized by a highly productive state and an intensity of emotions. Inspiration does not come on demand; it manifests through the love of one’s job, through some bright idea or sometimes it occurs spontaneously and cannot be studied and replicated at will. In addition, while studying, each of students should try to uncover his uniqueness, his individuality and learn to listen to self-own inner voice; he should look for his own interpretation of a particular role. Based on the above, we can draw some conclusions. A student studying acting today should aim to equally master the knowledge of classical acting techniques and understand all the intricacies of modern avan-garde and postmodernist theatre trends, the diversity of which places special demands on the education of a modern actor. A modern artist must skilfully apply in practice the knowledge gained in the learning process . He should freely navigate in various methods of acting, in drama as the primary basis of the performance. He should have an idea about inspiration, improvisation, acting individuality and authenticity of playing, about stage space and time. It would be an error for a contemporary artist to confine himself to the sphere of his profession exclusively, he should understand the connected nature of arts and the relationship between the theatre and other art disciplines. Various techniques of stage speech and vocal, emotive approaches and methods of controlling the inner world are compulsory and an integral part of modern theatrical education. The deeper a student learns the specificity and laws of these arts, the more interesting and professional his performance becomes. In turn, the modern theatre pedagogue while training students should upbringing such features as self-confidence of a student; a sense of responsibility and autonomy; aim for discovery of a student’s individual abilities; development of his taste and a sense of proportion; the ability to analyze and being equipped to distinguishing high art from vulgar and fake.