The ethics of the actor’s dramaturgy

The article discusses the relationship between acting, dramaturgy and ethics. This discussion is founded on the historical account of the psychophysical actor training of Jouko Turkka at the Theatre Academy Helsinki in the 1980s. This training entailed an entanglement of the technical, the dramaturgical and the ethical aspects of acting. The article attempts to disentangle this intertwinement on the basis of contemporary dramaturgical and actor’s dramaturgical theories, and finally outlines a dramaturgy of the actor as a medium of ethics and ethical enquiry.