WorksheetsGet Your Act Together Two !
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 9mins
What staging style is this?
Proscenium end stage
Theatre in the Round
Thrust stage
What staging style is this?
Promenade
Proscenium end stage
Thrust stage
What staging style is this?
Traverse
Proscenium end stage
Thrust stage
Give another name for this kind of staging style.
Traverse
In the round
End stage
If the audience is doing this, what kind of staging style is it?
Proscenium end stage
In the round
Promenade
What is the correct spelling of the name of the playwright who wrote "Blood Brothers"?
Willy Russel
Willy Rusell
Willy Russell
Which city is the play set in?
Liverpool
Newcastle
Manchester
What was the background reason for working class families being rehoused, just like the Johnstone family?
Slum clearances in Liverpool
To get rid of "difficult families"
It was nicer in the countryside
Who was Prime Minister at the time the play was written?
Tony Blair
Theresa May
Margaret Thatcher
"Blood Brothers" is similar to Greek tragedy, as it shows children paying for the mistakes their parents made. True or false?
True
False
Is "Blood Brothers"...
A comedy?
A tragedy?
A comic-tragedy?
Which character in "Blood Brothers" says: "How swiftly those who've made a pact, Can come to overlook the fact, Or wish the reckoning be delayed, But a debt is a debt and must be paid"?
Mr Lyons
Eddie
Narrator
When they move house, who leaves behind "rags, the wobbly wardrobe, chest of drawers that never close. The 2 legged chair, the carpet so bare"?
Mrs Lyons
Mrs Johnstone
Marilyn Monroe
Mickey says "I don't wear a hat that I can tilt at the world". Does he mean...
He doesn't own a hat
He tried to throw his hat like a frisbee but failed.
He has low status compared to Eddie and he has nothing to be proud of. In those days, people of high status such as businessmen would raise their hat politely in greeting to others in the street.
Who says "I don't want her to hold the baby, Richard. She's..I don't want the baby to catch anything. Babies catch things very easily, Richard"?
Mrs Johnstone
Mrs Lyons
The Gynaecologist
Who says "I'm not sure I'd let him mix with the likes of them in future. Make sure he keeps with his own kind...Thanks for the drink, sir"?
The policeman
The school teacher
Edward
Who says "I'm not defraudin' no one...Now move, you. Move! Give me the bag!"?
Linda
Mickey
Sammy
Who says "You have ruined me. But you won't ruin Edward! Is it money you want?"?
Mrs Johnstone
Mrs Lyons
Linda
Who says "Didn't Mickey tell y'? We got married two weeks before you came home and I'm expecting a baby"?
Linda
Marilyn Monroe
Mrs Johnstone
Who said " I didn't sort anythin' out...Not a job, not a house, nothin'. It used to be just sweets and ciggies he gave me, because I had none of me own. Now it's a job and a house. I'm not stupid Linda. You sorted it out. You an' Councillor Lyons" ?
Eddie
Narrator
Mickey
Brecht wanted the audience to remember they were watching a PLAY so that they were not emotionally involved and so that they would concentrate on the MESSAGE of his plays. He did this by using...
Direct address, placards, subtitles and projections, and actors commenting on characters' behaviour
obscure and gruesome abstract sound effects
trying to convince the audience to completely believe in the world of the play
