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Repertory Theatre (Quiz #12)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by Doug Wright is an examination of the life of German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde, who killed her father when she was a young child and survived the Nazi and Communist regimes in East Berlin as a transgender woman.

a)

God of Carnage

b)

I Am My Own Wife

c)

Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spik

d)

Red

2.

A Tony Award winning comedy by Christopher Durang about the relationships of three middle-aged single siblings. Some of the show's elements were derived from works of Anton Chekhov, including several character names, the play's setting in a cherry orchard, and the theme of the possible loss of an ancestral home.

a)

Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike

b)

All The Way

c)

I Am My Own Wife

d)

The Coast of Utopia

3.

A Tony Award winning trilogy of plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage, written by Tom Stoppard with focus on the philosophical debates in pre-revolution Russia between 1833 and 1866.

a)

The Humans

b)

Oslo

c)

The Coast of Utopia

d)

The History Boys

4.

A Tony Award winning play by British playwright Alan Bennett about a fictional boys' grammar school in the north of England. Set in the early 1980s, the play follows a group of history pupils preparing for the Oxford and Cambridge entrance examinations under the guidance of three teachers with contrasting styles.

a)

The History Boys

b)

The Coast of Utopia

c)

War Horse

d)

God of Carnage

5.

A Tony Award winning play by American writer John Logan about artist Mark Rothko in his New York studio in the 1950's and his ethical struggle with painting a group of murals that will be displayed in an expensive and exclusive restaurant.

a)

The History Boys

b)

Red

c)

God of Carnage

d)

The Humans

6.

A Tony Award winning play by Yasmina Reza about two sets of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park. They agree to meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.

a)

Oslo

b)

The History Boys

c)

All The Way

d)

God of Carnage

7.

A Tony Award winning play by Robert Schenkkan, depicting President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of the 88th United States Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The play takes its name from Johnson's 1964 campaign slogan.

a)

All The Way

b)

Red

c)

Oslo

d)

The Humans

8.

A Tony Award winning play based on the book of the same name by children's writer Michael Morpurgo, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. It is about a boy and his beloved horse during World War I, and the boys odyssey to bring his horse home.

a)

The History Boys

b)

Red

c)

Oslo

d)

War Horse

9.

A Tony Award winning one-act play written by Stephen Karam set in run-down Manhattan apartment in Chinatown at Thanksgiving as a family deals with aging, illness, and a changing economy.

a)

Oslo

b)

Humans

c)

Red

d)

God of Carnage

10.

A Tony Award winning play by J. T. Rogers, recounting (in dramatized, partially fictional form) the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

a)

Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike

b)

Oslo

c)

I Am My Own Wife

d)

The History Boys