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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Rough Theatre, part 2 (p. 93 to 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Pekin Opera Company.
(b) Formosa Opera Company.
(c) Xing Opera Company.
(d) Siam Opera Company.

2. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."
(a) A Surrealist production.
(b) A mime show.
(c) An opera.
(d) A musical.

3. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Gordon Craig.
(c) Stanislavsky.
(d) Schindler.

4. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?
(a) A Happening effect.
(b) An alienation effect.
(c) A realization.
(d) A fortitude.

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Avant garde theatre.
(b) Great theatre.
(c) Intense theatre.
(d) Bad theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

2. When did the author first go to Stratford?

3. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?

4. What "is above all an appeal to the spectator to work for himself, so to become more and more responsible for accepting what he sees only if it is convincing to him in an adult way"?

5. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?

(see the answer key)

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