Stage acting in the Victorian period would seem bizarrely and hilariously stylized to us today.

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He grew up in Lincolnshire and went to school in Reading, beginning his professional career as acting assistant stage manager at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

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Great artists are those who have in their vocal delivery and in their stage presence and in their acting the combination of all those elements.

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The evolution of first stage, and then movie acting, has proceeded to such a point that even a great actor of a couple of generations ago, like Sir Laurence Olivier, appears to us stiff and overly mannered now.

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He learnt acting while mopping the stage at a local theatre in Dundee and watching actors rehearsing.

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He moved on to the stage in London's West End, acting in shows including Lock Up Your Daughters and The Beggar's Opera.

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The results of those two perceptions--and AutoNation's discipline in acting on them--set the stage for the company's recent success.

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"Bawden's acting, her comic timing, singing, dancing and stage presence were all faultless and earned her - and her more famous main man - a joyous standing ovation on a buzzy, exciting night at the Crucible, " he wrote.

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Important characteristics of Kabuki theatre include its particular music, costumes, stage devices and props as well as specific plays, language and acting styles, such as the mie, in which the actor holds a characteristic pose to establish his character.

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Born in Barnet, London in 1919, Oxenford made her stage debut aged 13, and went on to train at the Embassy School of Acting in Swiss Cottage.

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