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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. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Beckett's.
(b) Brook's.
(c) Cunningham's.
(d) Grotowski's.

2. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?
(a) Endgame.
(b) Krapp's Last Tape.
(c) Happy Days.
(d) Waiting for Godot.

3. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) Henry VI.

4. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Meisner.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Adler.

5. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The price is too high.
(b) The lack of culture.
(c) The work is too shabby.
(d) The creative impulse doesn't exist.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?

2. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?

3. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."

4. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."

5. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?

(see the answer key)

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