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Questions
- Which Terence Rattigan play features a fourteen-year-old cadet expelled from Naval College for stealing a five-shilling postal order?
- Willy Loman is the central character of which 1949 stage play?
- Whose best known work is the 1953 play Waiting for Godot?
- Which play dramatises the life of Southern belle, Blanche DuBois?
- Kiss Me, Kate is a musical version of which William Shakespeare play?
- Which Anthony Shaffer play was adapted to a film version starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine?
- Which one-character play by Willy Russell is about a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife?
- Who wrote the four-act drama Man and Superman in 1903?
- Of all of Shakespeare's characters, which speaks the most lines in a single play?
- Name the character that journeys from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert in a Henrik Ibsen play?
- Doctor Faustus is an Elizabethan tragedy by which playwright?
- Which Anton Chekhov play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife?
- Which Shakespeare play has an English placename in its title?
- Which English playwright, who had a very short public career from 1964 until his death in 1967, wrote the plays Loot and What the Butler Saw?
- What sort of sandwiches does Algernon Moncrieff have a craving for in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde?
- What was the name of John Osborne's very successful 1956 play?
- Which Alan Bennet play opens in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield?
- Which Harold Pinter play features Stanley Webber, who lives in a rundown boarding house?
- What sort of monster was first mentioned in the Shakespeare play Othello?
- Which Noel Coward play is set in an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric members of the Bliss family?
- Which play by Robert Bolt is based on the life of Sir Thomas More?
- Which play features two mismatched roommates: the slovenly, easygoing Oscar Madison and the neat, uptight Felix Ungar?
- Which 2009 play by Jez Butterworth is a study of a changing England built around local waster Johnny "Rooster" Byron?
- The phrase "its all Greek to me" comes from which Shakespeare play?
- Which play takes its title from a British juvenile jail, at Hollesley Bay?
- The line "Never a lender nor a borrower be" comes from which Shakespearean play?
- Which Edward Albee play, first staged in 1962, examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George?
Answers
- The Winslow Boy
- Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller)
- Samuel Beckett
- A Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennessee Williams)
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Sleuth (1970)
- Shirley Valentine
- George Bernard Shaw
- Richard III
- Peer Gynt
- Christopher Marlowe
- Uncle Vanya
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Joe Orton
- Cucumber sandwiches
- Look Back in Anger
- The History Boys
- The Birthday Party
- The Green Eyed Monster
- Hay Fever
- A Man for All Seasons
- The Odd Couple (by Neil Simon)
- Jerusalem
- Julius Caesar
- Borstal Boy
- Hamlet
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?