Performance (performing arts)

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An appearance in the broader sense denotes the appearance of an actor in a certain setting, for example in the media of film or theater , on a stage , at a festival or in a drama or one of its sections. The opposite of the appearance is the finish .

Theater: appearance and scene

“Before the appearance”, by Ernst Oppler , around 1912

In the narrower sense, appearances by theater characters serve to structure theater texts. An “appearance” is then the smallest structural unit of the drama. A new “appearance” always begins when a character leaves or enters the stage. The appearance in this meaning is usually synonymous with scene , especially when it comes to translations from French or Italian. The division of these pieces into acte / atto and scène / scena is often expressed in German using the terms elevator and appearance.

But there are also cases, conveyed through the English theater, where the term scene is used in the sense of image , i.e. for a scene or a stage design , and the term appearance takes on the function of the smaller unit: In Shakespeare's textbooks , appearance is usually not performed separately - which is related to the stage conditions of the Globe Theater , where appearances and exits had to be determined not like on a peep box stage , but rather the locations of the play in the large, always open theater building. In dramas by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing or Friedrich Schiller , the “scene” also appears in the meaning of the setting, and there is also a division into appearances.

music

In order to emphasize characteristic performances, there is the genre of performance music , which is related to the introduction , the fanfare or the flourish .

Example of the structure of a drama

  • Drama: Hamlet .
  • Drama, act: Hamlet, 3rd act.
  • Drama, act, scene: Hamlet, 3rd act, 3rd scene: a room in the castle.
  • Drama, act, scene, appearance: Hamlet, 3rd act, 3rd scene, 1st appearance: The King, Rosenkranz and Güldenstern.
  • Drama, act, scene, appearance: Hamlet, 3rd act, 3rd scene, end of 1st appearance: Rosenkranz and Güldenstern exit.
  • Drama, act, scene, appearance: Hamlet, 3rd act, 3rd scene, beginning of 2nd appearance: Polonius comes.
  • Drama, act, scene, appearance: Hamlet, 3rd act, 3rd scene, end of 2nd appearance: Polonius exits.
  • Drama, act, scene, appearance: Hamlet, 3rd act, 3rd scene, 3rd appearance: the king alone.

literature

  • Monika Sandhack: appearance , in: Manfred Brauneck, Gérard Schneilin (ed.), Theaterlexikon , Vol. 1, Rowohlt, Reinbek 5th edition 2007, p. 127. ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9