True & False\ Actor
The following sentences are true. In the examination,
you will be asked about them. Note that they might be changed a little.
1. An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production.
2. The ancient Greek word for an "actress," hypokrites,
means literally "one who interprets".
3. An actor is one who interprets a dramatic character.
4. Actress refers specifically
to a female person who acts.
5. The gender-neutral term player is now generally deemed archaic.
6. The first recorded case of an actor performing took place in 534 BC.
7. Prior to Thespis act, stories were only known to be told in song and dance and in third person narrative.
8. Theatrical legend to this day maintains that Thespis exists as a
mischievous spirit.
9. Actors were traditionally not people of high status.
10. In many parts of Europe, actors
could not even receive a Christian burial.
11. in the 19th and 20th centuries as
acting has become an honoured and popular profession.
12. The Group Theatre (New York) first popularised the Method.
13. The Method acting was
subsequently advanced and developed in new directions by Lee Strasberg.
14. Using the Method, an actor
recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to
identify with the character being portrayed.
15. In representational acting, the
illusion of the fourth wall with the audience.
16. In the time of William Shakespeare, women s roles were generally played by men or boys.
17. In modern times, women sometimes
play the roles of prepubescentboys.
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