A Discussion of Actor Culture Culture is one of the hardest things to define. Trying to fit all the subtle nuances and colloquialisms of a group of people into one rippled shape often requires drastic simplification. However, to enlighten others about your culture, there is no other alternative. Culture in short, as defined by the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, is “the following ways of living, including but not limited to: language, arts and sciences, thought, spirituality, social activity, and interaction.” To this end, artist culture can be defined as the aforementioned ways of life with respect to the group of people known as artists with emphasis on language, spirituality, thought and interaction. Language is one of the most important traits of Executor culture. Theatre, the most widespread example of performance culture, uses language to its maximum extent. Theater in and of itself is the use of language, along with sets, movements, and/or props, to convey a message or moral to the target audience. The use of language in performance culture takes on more than just social meaning. One author suggests: ...language in the theater is generally much more "powerful", rhetorically and otherwise, than in its social use, being subject to far greater compositional or oratorical constraints than any other mode of speech except the literature or oratory itself. (Elam 147) Language, therefore, takes on a significant role in the culture of the performer. Colliding with obstacles such as the length of a show, the target audience's ability to understand and, in some cases, the constraints of reality, language is... at the center of the paper...."Defining Culture." Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Promotes cultural understanding through education and communication. The Roshan Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, 2001. Web. 04 December 2011. Elam, Keir. "Language in the theatre". Substance. 18/19 ed. vol. 6/7. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1977. 139-61. Press. Theater in France: ten years of research (winter 1977 - spring 1978). Isherwood, Charles. "Theatre Review - 'Mourning Becomes Electra' - Blood and Guts and O'Neill at the Acorn Theater - NYTimes.com." Theater - The New York Times. The New York Times, 20 February 2009. Web. 06 December 2011."The origins of the theater - The first works (continued)." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. PBS: Public Broadcasting Service, unknown. Network. 06 December 2011."improvising." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Web. 07 December. 2011