persona muta
nounEtymology From Latin mūta persōna (“silent character”).
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theater A nonspeaking role, a silent actor.
- 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, […]1996, Lowell Edmunds, Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 69: