Drama – Questions & Answers
Answer the following questions:
1. What is an actor?
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity.
2. Where does the word actor come from?
It comes from the Greek work hypokrites.
3. What does the word actor refer to?
The word actor refers to a person who acts regardless of sex.
4. When was the gender-neutral term player used?
It was used in film in the early days of
the Production Code.
5. When was the first recorded case of an actor
performing took place?
534 BC.
6. Who is the first known person to speak words as a
character in a play or story?
Thespis.
7. What are actors called in honour of Thespis?
Thespians.
8. Where actors in the Middle Ages viewed with distrust?
Yes, they were.
9. What is method acting?
Method acting is a technique developed
from the acting "system" created in the early 20th century by Constantin Stanislavski.
10. When was the Method acting first
popularised?
It was first popularized in the 1930s.
11. What did Method acting offer?
Method acting offered a systematized training that developed internal
abilities.
12. What does presentational acting refer to?
Presentational acting refers to a relationship between actor and
audience.
13. Where women allowed acting in the
ancient Greece and Rome and the medieval world?
No, they weren t because it was considered disgraceful for a woman to go
on the stage.
14. When was the British prohibition of women actors
occurred?
The British prohibition was ended in the reign of Charles II who enjoyed watching actresses on stage.
15. Were women banned from appearing on stage in
Japan?
Women were banned from performing on
stage during the Edo
period.