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

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) King Lear.

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

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

5. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?
(a) An alienation effect.
(b) A realization.
(c) A Happening effect.
(d) A fortitude.

Short Answer 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"?

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

3. What does the "inner man" express only in his words?

4. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

(see the answer key)

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