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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Holy Theatre, part 1 (p 47 to 61).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) Harold Clurman.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) Truman Capote.
(d) James Jackson.

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

3. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Pinter.
(b) Sletteland.
(c) Williams.
(d) Shepard.

4. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?
(a) As they were written.
(b) Without regard to language.
(c) In a modern way.
(d) As they were performed.

5. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."
(a) Avant garde Theatre.
(b) Theatre of the Absurd.
(c) Surrealist Theatre.
(d) Theatre of Realism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

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

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

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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