persona muta
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin mūta persōna (“silent character”).
Noun edit
persona muta
- (theater) A nonspeaking role, a silent actor. [from early 18th c.]
- 1996, Lowell Edmunds, Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 69:
- She will be a persona muta, a non-speaking actor. She will thus have in this episode the function that her father had during the preceding stasimon, except that she will act. And since she will act, she, that is, the movement of her body in the stage space, […]