ABSTRACT
In the world of dramatic art it has long been customary to divide actors into a number of categories: good, villainous, gay, suffering, bright and stupid. This division of actors into groups is called type-casting. Therefore there are the following types: tragedians, dramatic lovers, second-line lovers and dandies, dramatic and comic old men and women, noble fathers, character parts, moralists, comedians and simple-minded creatures, farce comedians, vaudeville lovers, dramatic and comic ingenues, vaudeville actors who can sing and play second and third-rate parts. There have appeared shirt-sleeve lovers and earthy actresses, wicked and villainous characters, nervous roles, roles with tears, costume roles, burlesque players, Ibsen and brainy parts special roles in plays by Ostrovski, Hauptmann and Dostoyevski. When the public comes to know actors of this sort it will quickly change its ways, it will value creativeness on the stage instead of rubber-stamp art. This is the very best filtre which will protect the theatre from being flooded with mediocrities.
