Formal acting

The term "formal" as found in the phrases formal acting, formal performer, formal performance, formal play, formal actor, formal actress, etc. is used in ESAT specifically to distinguish what may loosely be termed "traditional" or "classical"[1] stage acting in formally written plays (i.e. performing the text as written by a playwright) from more improvisational performance, where the performer is probably also a co-creator of the text, and other alternative forms of performance that have been a particular feature of the post 1960s international theatre, and a dominant approach in South Africa since the 1970s.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_acting

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