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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 1 (p 110 to 134).

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) Grotowski.
(b) Gardot.
(c) Pierrot.
(d) Beckett.

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

3. "In work with a designer, a sympathy of _____ is what matters most."
(a) Money.
(b) Expertise.
(c) Tempo.
(d) Means.

4. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A fight for truth.
(b) A competition with film.
(c) A Deadly Theatre.
(d) A true theatre of joy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?

2. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?

3. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?

4. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

5. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?

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