ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Screen Acting on the auditorium. Imagine that are on a proscenium stage, there is a triangle that starts with spreads out to the far sides of the auditorium. For some reason, acting teachers around the world will chant at a student that something is 'too televisual' when it is too small, as if screen acting were a more true and smaller version of stage acting. In fact, it is not true at all, as the screen demands far more cheating and untrue physical relationships than life or theatre ever demanded. For a start, the screen defines the reality, so if it is not there on-screen, it is not happening as far as the audience is concerned. On-screen, the variations are much more, and for different reasons. Relationship with the script for screen acting is different from that in the theatre. This whole topic is dealt with in much greater depth in Secrets of Screen Acting.
