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Introduction to Acting
1. What is the name of a dramatized narrative delivered over the radio?
2. What is an Action?
3. What is an Obstacle?
4. What stipulation did Mr. Sharp give you about Objectives?
5. What is an Activity?
6. Fill in the chart below on stage directions:
Audience
7. What is it called when an actor rotates their body away from the person they are talking to in
order to be more seen by the audience?
8. What is blocking?
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9. In a script, what are stage directions?
Greek Theatre
10. Who was the first person to act as another character in western theatre?
11. What was the name of the festival where theatre was born in Greece?
12. Who added the second actor to plays?
13. Who added the third actor to plays?
14. How did the Greeks build their theaters?
15. The word for Tragedy comes from the Greek words for “goat” and “song.” Why?
16. What is “Deus Ex Machina?”
17. In what city-state did theatre originate?
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18. What was the name of the building behind the actors in Greek theatre? (It served as
background decoration and to store props and costumes).
19. What were the two functions of greek masks?
Medea
20. Aegeus is the king of...
21. What is the first thing that happens in the play?
22. Who makes up the chorus?
23. Jason is famous for…
24. When does Medea first reveal her plan to kill her children?
25. How does Medea escape?
26. What presents does Medea give Glauce?
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27. What did Aegeus ask the Oracle at Delphi?
28. Which of the following is NOT killed by Medea?
29. Why did Medea help Jason retrieve the golden fleece?
Roman and Medieval Theatre
30. What two inventions helped Rome build their theatres and colosseums?
31. How were Roman plays different than greek plays?
32. Why did theatre fall out of fashion at the fall of the Roman empire?
33. Who was the first known female playwright in Western drama?
34. Why did the church begin to use plays in the mid-to-later part of the medieval era?
35. In a morality play, what is the “everyman?”
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36. How were pageant plays organized in Medieval Europe?
37. What was the stage on which a pageant play would take place called?
38. Why did actors get a bad reputation in Medieval Europe?
39. How were pageant plays intended to be viewed? Where was the audience?
40. Complete the Warm Up: “To Sit…