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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. Who told the author, "My search is based on the director and the actor. You base yours on the director, actor, audience. I accept that this is possible, but for me it is too indirect"?
(a) Pierrot.
(b) Gardot.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Grotowski.

2. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(b) Final Hour.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) The Investigation.

3. 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?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Six years.
(d) Five months.

4. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?
(a) Andreas Bryg.
(b) Travis Kendowski.
(c) Chaim Potok.
(d) Jerzy Grotowski.

5. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) Caucasian Chalk Circle.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) La Boheme.
(d) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."

3. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

4. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?

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

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