How well do you know the classic playwrights?
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Test your musical theatre knowledge on the 15 questions below.
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1. Which of these classic playwrights wrote Waiting for Godot?
Samuel Beckett
William Shakespeare
Arthur Miller
Tom Stoppard
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2. Which classic playwright wrote this play?
Oscar Wilde
Edward Albee
Edmond Rostand
Robert Bolt
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3. Which classic playwright wrote The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya?
Anton Chekhov
William Gibson
Samuel Beckett
Arthur Laurents
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4. Which of these classic playwrights wrote about Napolean, Squealer & Snowball?
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5. Which plays did this classic playwright write?
Pygmalion, Man and Superman & St Joan
Othello, Macbeth & Twelfth Night
Mourning Becomes Electra, Long Day's Journey Into Night & The Iceman Cometh
The Birthday Party, The Homecoming & The Caretaker
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6. George Orwell famously predicted our future for which year?
1984
1994
2024
4444
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7. Which of these classic playwrights is responsible for the creation of this character?
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
David Mamet
Chaucer
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8. Which classic playwright created the Birling family?
J. B. Priestley
Nikolai Gogol
Brian Friel
Henrik Ibsen
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9. Which classic playwright wrote The Price, The Crucible & A View From a Bridge?
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Thornton Wilder
Tony Kushner
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10. Which classic playwright wrote The Miser, The Misanthrope & Tartuffe?
Sophocles
Moliére
Lorraine Hansberry
Jean-Paul Sartre
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11. Which classic playwright famously said, "Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes"?
Oscar Wilde
Joseph Kesselring
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Shakespeare
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12. In which year was this famous playwright born?
1564
1664
1464
1764
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13. I am a British playwright. I wrote Equus and Amadeus. I was 90 years old when I died in Ireland. Who am I?
Peter Shaffer
David Hare
Sarah Cane
Alan Bennet
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14. Noël Coward wrote which of these classic plays?
Blithe Spirit
Hedda Gabler
Twelve Angry Men
The Children's Hour
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15. Ira Levin wrote which of these classic plays?
Deathtrap, Veronica's Room & Son of Rosemary
The Woman in Black, An Inspector Calls & Gaslight
Ghost Stories, Nightmare & The Haunting
Blackmail, Underground & Breathe
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