General Theatre Knowledge

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Kevin Spacey created quite a stir in New York last year portraying Hickey, a reformed alcoholic, in what play? The Iceman Cometh How I Learned To Drive Death Of A Salesman Fuddy Meers

2. Who wrote the play about Hickey, the reformed alcoholic? Tennessee Williams Brendan Behan Eugene O'Neill Guillame Appolinaire

3. 'Waiting For Godot', long considered a masterpiece of the absurd theatre, was written in French by an Irishman. Name him. James Joyce Eugene Ionesco William Synge Samuel Beckett

4. This playwright, known primarily for his philosophical treatises, wrote 'No Exit' Jean Paul Sartre Sigmund Freud Aristotle Albert Camus

5. 'True West' is being revived in NYC starring film actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Who wrote this masterpiece of the 70s? Alan Ayckbourn Edward Albee Sam Shepard David Mamet

6. The musical 'Hello Dolly' is based on a play by whom? George Bernard Shaw Thornton Wilder Henrik Ibsen Arthur Miller

7. Along the same line, what Shaw play was later adapted into the musical 'My Fair Lady'? Man And Superman Arms And The Man Pygmalion Major Barbara

8. Janet McTeer, of the movie 'Tumbleweeds', made her American debut on stage in 1997. Name the play. A Doll's House Travels With My Aunt Angels In America The Chairs

9. At its' premiere in Paris in the early 1900's, 'Pere Ubu' caused a notorious riot. Who wrote it? Arthur Adamov Bertolt Brecht Alfred Jarry Eugene Ionesco

10. The song 'Mack The Knife' actually comes from whose play, 'The Threepenny Opera'? Samuel Beckett Antonin Artaud Neil Simon Bertolt Brecht