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Acting is a creative effort. Creation of something new from another is what every art form does. Acting is such a form where man is the most fundamental element. In this form, facts and truth are derived from the thoughts and actions born out of life. The wholeness of the art of acting is based on the perfection of the result of its own conditions. Ordinarily, we tend to be attracted towards individual characteristics of certain actors. Some of these individual characteristics are deceptive enough to have the audience perceive them as ideal traits of great acting. However these cannot be termed as acting skills, neither can they alone make one an artist. It is naïve to think that one can create illusion through acting. Such deception is not what theatre seeks to achieve. Theatre attempts to create real, yet modified versions of the truth. An actor who realizes that he/she is not just an artist, but also the most fundamental instrument of the art form, should develop skills like flexibility, fluidity, magnetism and imagination, that advance one’s acting prowess, while still retaining his/her own individuality.
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