I wrote a reply to this, but it got very long and very general, so I've posted it over on my own journal. There are a couple of specific things I wanted to respond to, though. One is that anthropomorfic is an interesting case because it is, in fact, original fiction. I take your point that it has strong connections to the fanfic community, but nonetheless, it's a bit of a stumbling block (or not, depending on how one approaches the definition of fanfic - hence the over-length of my reply).
Although the actors who play Ros and Guil may be incredibly interested in their character's interior lives (since I can't agree they don't have any at all), and when one is responding to a performance (or an ideal performance) as a whole one has that to draw upon.
Actors are (nearly) always interested in the interior lives of their characters, since that's the material they use to create a credible character in the first place. However they can, and in German theatre often have to, create characters out of text that envisages no characters at all and is not even structured as dialogue. So the actors may be bringing something to R&G that isn't actually in the text at all. But leaving this point aside, do you really want to include *performances* of plays as fanfic? Because in that case you also have to include film, TV and adaptations.
And finally, I'm curious as to what you mean by an "ideal" performance? because my first repsonse would be that there can only be concrete, individual performances, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by ideal?
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Date: 2007-04-14 09:24 am (UTC)Although the actors who play Ros and Guil may be incredibly interested in their character's interior lives (since I can't agree they don't have any at all), and when one is responding to a performance (or an ideal performance) as a whole one has that to draw upon.
Actors are (nearly) always interested in the interior lives of their characters, since that's the material they use to create a credible character in the first place. However they can, and in German theatre often have to, create characters out of text that envisages no characters at all and is not even structured as dialogue. So the actors may be bringing something to R&G that isn't actually in the text at all. But leaving this point aside, do you really want to include *performances* of plays as fanfic? Because in that case you also have to include film, TV and adaptations.
And finally, I'm curious as to what you mean by an "ideal" performance? because my first repsonse would be that there can only be concrete, individual performances, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by ideal?