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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 2 (p 134 to 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?
(a) Visceral artist.
(b) Scene designer.
(c) Community builder.
(d) Costume designer.

2. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?
(a) Pinter.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Osbourne.

3. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Cunningham's.
(b) Grotowski's.
(c) Beckett's.
(d) Brook's.

4. No tribute to the latent power of the theatre is as telling as that paid to it by what?
(a) Bigotry.
(b) Violence.
(c) Censorship.
(d) Respect.

5. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."
(a) Light.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Questioning.

Short Answer Questions

1. "In rehearsal, form and _____ have to be examined sometimes together, sometimes separately."

2. The theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?

3. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?

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

5. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?

(see the answer key)

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