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How well do you know the classic playwrights?

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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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Peter J Snee

Peter is a British born creative, working in the live entertainment industry. He holds an honours degree in Performing Arts and has over 12 years combined work experience in producing, directing and managing artistic programs & events. Peter has traversed the UK, Europe and Australia pursuing his interest in theatre. He is inspired by great stories and passionately driven by pursuing opportunities to tell them.