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Friday, June 25, 2004

This Friday's Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of the theatre. Answers here:

1. Which British dramatist, born in 1930, wrote "The Birthday
Party" and "The Caretaker"?
2. Kabuki is a form of theatrical entertainment in which country?
3. Which Irish city contains the famous Abbey Theatre and the Gate Theatre?
4. What kind of plays were originally performed at the Grand Guignol theatre in Paris?
5. A reconstruction of which Elizabethan theatre in London, instigated by US actor Sam Wanamaker, was completed in 1996?
6. Which Irish-French author, born in 1906, wrote plays with people living in dustbins and a woman buried up to her neck?
7. Which famous 16th-century dramatist was killed in a Deptford tavern in 1593?
8. Is the oldest theatre in London the Coliseum, the Old Vic or the Drury Lane Theatre?
9. Which New York theatre workshop was founded in 1947 and had such members as Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro?
10. Which Italian writer is best known for his plays "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and "Tonight We Improvise"?

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