Video: "The half" or 30 minutes before going on stage
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Not all people know about how actors prepare to enter the stage, how the theatrical world lives, according to what laws and regulations. We see only what we are shown - the perfected acting of the actors, wonderful theatrical performances. But what is happening behind the scenes is unknown to the common man. This is known only to Simon Annand, who has been a theater photographer for 25 years, acting as a liaison between actors and viewers. Simon Annand is the author of a series of photographs entitled "Half an hour: photographs of actors preparing to go on stage." (The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage).
"The half" in theatrical English means 30 minutes before the actors enter the stage, 30 minutes before the curtain rises and all the actors begin to play their roles, 30 minutes during which the actors prepare in private. So that theatrical actors do not do the whole day, every evening they go on stage and give performances. Their dressing rooms are their private space, where you can retire, concentrate, collect your thoughts, where two personalities - the actor himself and his stage character - conduct their dialogue. Over the past 25 years, photographer Simon Annand has become an integral part of theatrical life, gaining access to all the actors' make-up rooms during those “sacred” 30 minutes. "The half" is a series of portraits that capture the moment when a person's real self fades into the shadows and a stage character steps forward.
There is something fragile in these photographs. The actors in the pictures of Simon Annand are shown in a very personal setting, for their usual actions: someone is making up, someone is smoking or eating, someone is painting their lips, or just napping. The photo project "The Half" is part of a stunningly rich theatrical history. Simon Annand took about 300 shots of the actors before going on stage, and putting them all together, he published a whole book.
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