ABSTRACT
Stanislavski said, 'Communication through the mind constitutes one of the most important dynamic actions in acting and should be valued. It is absolutely essential in the process of creating and emitting the "life of the human spirit" of a role'. Some actors can be very insular, with their characters never seeming to leave their bodies. Others actors seem to fill a theatre without seemingly doing anything. When people talk about presence on stage, they are often talking about the actor's ability to communicate their character to the whole audience while staying within the circumstances. The theme of the play, the sum of all the objectives of the characters; it's what the play is really about. For a character, the super objective is what they want over the course of the play. As Stanislavski says, 'the more complex the Task and the feelings to be conveyed, the more different, various, colourful, the more subtle the Adaptations must be'.
