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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. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Hamburg Opera.
(b) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) The London Globe.

2. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?
(a) An ordeal.
(b) An emotional moment.
(c) A violent outbreak.
(d) A Happening.

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"?
(a) Schindler.
(b) Gordon Craig.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Stanislavsky.

4. "Both [rough and holy] theatres feed on deep and true ______ in their audiences."
(a) Aspirations.
(b) Love.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Attention.

5. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?
(a) To find a system of Truth.
(b) To aid in remembering lines.
(c) To get away from Deadly Theatre.
(d) To forget their worries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

3. "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?

4. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?

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

(see the answer key)

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