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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Deadly Theatre, part 2 (p. 30-46).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Marat/Sade.

2. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) True impulse.
(b) Creative explosion.
(c) Artistic risks.
(d) Finding truth.

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

4. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Forest.
(b) Man.
(c) Monster.
(d) Machine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?

2. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

4. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?

5. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

(see the answer key)

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