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

2. 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 work is too shabby.
(c) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(d) The lack of culture.

3. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

4. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Magnitude.
(b) Art.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Drama.

5. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Living Theatre.
(b) The Holy Theatre.
(c) The Dead Theatre.
(d) The Immediate Theatre.

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. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?

3. Every work and every period has its own what?

4. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?

5. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

(see the answer key)

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