Grozny, Russia

Acting

Актерское искусство

Integrated Master's degree
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Acting at Чеченский государственный университет

Language: RussianStudies in Russian
Subject area: arts
University website: www.chesu.ru

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Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
Acting
This many-headed monster.
Philip Massinger, Roman Actor, Act III, scene 4.
Acting
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
George Moore, Mummer-Worship.
Acting
For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore quoted in George Jean Nathan's The Theatre in the fifties.
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