King Lear, Starring Ian McKellen - Assignment Example

McKellen’s Lear speaking sometimes it’s slightly thick, but soon the voice’s getting strong again (“King Lear, Starring Ian McKellen”).  

The style of speaking is another thing that cannot be found in the original Shakespeare text. Neither there’re all those means of expression a visual art implies. The composition of Shakespeare’s text is defined by words and developments of a plot, but a theatrical performance requires much more means. Thus, the main difference between what’s written and the performance is that characters communicate with each other within a play using their body language, accents, moves, etc. while words are simply a starting point. They are only a scheme for performance.

For this reason valuable is a work of a playwright, and specifically, a script written for a play. The script isn’t a simple guide of words, but rather a basis for every performance. It’s the above-mentioned scheme for acting, and at every stage of the production team turns to a script. When planning a performance, the main challenge is to handle all the means of expression (including the use of a stage space) and therefore, all the individual performances made by actors together, because in the final stage of production, a play should turn into a single performance