Abstract: The subject of this research is the actor and the sense of speech “freedom” on stage and on the screen – the culture of speechification on stage and on the screen. The article raised a number of interesting questions – theatrical character, development of acting abilities depending on the type of cinematography. The author’s observations regarding speech differences in speech in movies and on stage and remarkable. Giving close attention to the use of speech elements in cinematography, the author claims that speech “impulsivities” must merge with the fixed frame. The questions of using silence in cinematography and theatre, as well as differences in its application in other spheres of art are reviewed. The conclusion is made that unlike stage actors, the diversity of voice, elocution, pace and rhythm skills of live action actors manifests functions by different laws of internal process. It is stated that speech score of stage actors is a conditionally fixed phenomenon, since stage performance is a living organism, while in cinematography, speech is more static, namely because of the do-overs and adaptation to the result desired by film director. It is underline that speech of the stage actor is strongly subordinated to rhythmic score set by text of the author, stage director, and even scenic and biological rhythms of the partner. Unlike cinematography, onstage speech is not a constant.

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the work with students in Russian and Chinese theatrical schools, which is structured on the elements of acting techniques determined by the “Stanislavsky system” as the leading theoretical foundation in the training of novice actors. It is noted the assisting methods in the process of actors training is the methods and approaches towards drama training applied by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Nikolai Demidov. Leaning on the national and foreign experiments, the professors are guided by personal long-term artistic experience and theory of acting art, trying to make this course on the basis of substantial scientific theory and practice. The author claims that actors training in China leans on the Meyerhold system, with focus on development of self-control, control over body, voice and emotions, orientation towards manipulation of the character, coupled with random body movements as the basis. Professional acting technique training in Chinese theatrical schools is founded on the basic knowledge of professional skills for improving the laws of physical body movement, emotional control, cognition and interpretation of the character.