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What is one key difference between roles in real life and roles in a play?

  • Observers are not needed for roles in a play (correct)
  • Roles in real life are always genuine
  • Roles in a play are always genuine
  • Observers are necessary for roles in real life
  • What are the two notions of acting mentioned in the text?

  • Formal and informal
  • Internal and external
  • Genuine and fake
  • Presentational and emotional (correct)
  • Who attempted to codify acting to ensure quality by setting specific poses, attitudes, and gestures to demonstrate feelings?

  • Delsarte (correct)
  • Observers
  • Diderot
  • Stanislavski
  • What are the key aims of Stanislavski's method acting?

    <p>To have the actor convey the goals and objectives of a character</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the past approach to acting focus on?

    <p>Both formality of voice and movement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of acting focuses on formal presentation from the outside in?

    <p>Presentational acting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one key difference between roles in real life and roles in a play?

    <p>Roles in a play are always genuine, while roles in real life are not genuine</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who attempted to codify acting by setting specific poses, attitudes, and gestures to demonstrate feelings?

    <p>Diderot and Delsarte</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two notions of acting mentioned in the text?

    <p>Presentational and representational</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are Stanislavski's key aims for method acting?

    <p>To have the actor convey the goals and objectives of a character</p> Signup and view all the answers

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