Theater and Cinema: Some Touches for Comparison

The article analyzes the problems of correlation and comparison of Stage and screen arts; theater and film actor in the process of creating a play or film. With the help of a comparative analysis, conclusions were made about the differences and similarities that exiSt between theater and cinema in the Studied categories of time, space, acting and the viewer. Attention is drawn to theatrical convention and film reality. We have concluded about some differences and similarities that exist between theater and cinema in the Studied categories of time, space, acting and audience perception. Space and time in the cinema intersect, but will never be identical, because the action in the film is always a paSt action, and a theatrical performance is always about the present time. The basis of acting in the theater and in the cinema has common features, such as work with the body, voice, plaSticity, work on the character, work with the text. However, it has significant differences related to the presence or absence of the audience, the space of the stage in the theater and acting on camera, theatrical convention and film reality, etc. The viewer in the theater and the cinema can show and experience the moSt similar emotions, but the essential difference is that in the theater the viewer can really influence the performance, which is largely conditional, interact with the actors, while in the cinema he sees an image that he completely ignores, although it displays the image as realiStically as possible. Paradoxically, we can conclude that theater, although it involves living people in real space, has a very conventional artiStic Structure, while cinema, which is based on a moving “non-living” image and the illusion of reality, looks more realiStic for the viewer.