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Fun Trivia: P : Plays

Special Sub-Topic: Classics of the Theatre


Being trapped in a room with people that you dislike is a view of hell that is presented in 'No Exit'. Who wrote it?

    Jean Paul Sartre. Clever idea

In Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', the principal players are named:
    George and Martha. As in George and Martha Washington

Arthur Miller's play about a Marilyn Monroe -like woman:
    After the Fall. All four are Miller plays

The entertaining comedy, 'The Importance of Being Earnest', was written by:
    Oscar Wilde. Witty and amusing

The play 'Golden Boy' has been made into a movie on more than one occasion. Who is the playwright?
    Clifford Odets. Odets also did 'The Country Girl', which became a movie with William Holden, Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby

In Jason Miller's 'That Championship Season', the individuals involved had been champions in what sport?
    Basketball. Award Winning Play

Who was NOT one of Shakespeare's contemporaries?
    Maxwell Anderson. Jonson was quite {popular;} Marlowe was also no slouch. Webster wrote 'The Duchess of Malfi'.

'The Children's Hour' dramatizes the consequences that flow from a scandalous lie. Who wrote it?
    Lillian Hellman. One of her best

The dramatization of the life of Joan of Arc in 'Saint Joan' was written by:
    George Bernard Shaw. One of his best known works

The prize winning 'Glengarry Glen Ross' was written by:
    David Mamet. It was Mamet who did the play (and, I believe, the screenplay)


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