Mime Language. From Singularity To Community

Abstract

Abstract This article approaches the subject of theatrical language in mime, aiming to identify the mechanisms and resources of stage performance, referring itself to the silence/speech binomial. Can mime impose a valid theatrical language? Will a type of structuralism, through a reduction of complexities, manage to encompass the essence of the implications of stage acting within social structures? We will see the extent to which theater can trace a pattern of collective mime language socially and the extent to which such an approach will manage to encompass the interaction of the mind with an external reality, while also analysing the ability of the performer – when the latter understands their own mind or creates maps of their own mind or of the community – to create a sort of cognitive empathy, resulting in an extraction of a theory of collectivity, which is, most often, ignored in such a cultural performance as mime, and its protagonists may or may not find a place in a social mind.