Trivia questions
with answers about plays and on stage trivia
Was Macbeth a real person?
A: Yes.
A US singer / dancer of the 1930s with the real first name of Ethel,
she appeared in musicals such as Dames and 42nd Street. Who was she?
A: Ruby Keeler.
Who wrote and starred in Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit?
A: Noel Coward.
Which dramatist's works include Arms and the Man, Man and Superman
and St. Joan?
A: George Bernard Shaw.
Which contemporary playwright acted in the films The Right Stuff and
Steel Magnolias?
A: Sam Shepard.
Which monarch protected Moliere from attacks caused by his satires?
A: Louis XIV.
The brother of which British prime minister wrote Lloyd George Knew
My Father and The Chiltern Hundreds?
A: Alec Douglas-Home.
Which English actress, formerly a child performer in her parent's
music-hall act, starred in films 10 and Victor / Victoria?
A: Julie Andrews.
Who made the film The Life of Brian?
A: Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Of which art is Marcel Marceau a leading exponent?
A: Mime.
Where was William Shakespeare born?
A: Stratford-upon-Avon.
Which playwright and poet wrote Peer Gynt and Ghosts while in exile
form his native Norway?
A: Ibsen.
Name the 17th century octagonal theater recently reconstructed in
Southwark?
A: The Globe.
Around the altar of which god were the earliest Greek dramas
performed?
A: Dionysus.
In which country was the British playwright Tom Stoppard born?
A: Czechoslovakia.
Which playwright said in a 1960 revue 'Life is rather like a tin of
sardines - we're all of us looking for the key'?
A: Alan Bennett.
In which country are No and Kabuki traditional types of drama?
A: Japan.
In the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night, what is the name of Olivia's
hard-drinking uncle?
A: Sir Toby Belch.
Which great actor was the first director of Britain's National
Theatre company?
A: Laurence Olivier.
Which playwright's first successful novel, The Good Companions, was
about a travelling theater company?
A: J B Priestley.
Which Oscar-winning actor starred in the 1984 Broadway revival of
Death of a Salesman?
A: Dustin Hoffman.
In which of Aristophanes' plays do the women of Athens refuse to make
love to their husbands until a war is over?
A: Lysistrata.
Which humorist wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?
A: James Thurber.
The first national theatre was founded in Paris by Louis XIV in 1680.
What is its name?
A: The Comedie Francaise.
Where in Germany was the Wagner theatre established in 1876?
A: Bayreuth.
Which English ballet dancer was born Margaret Hookham in 1919?
A: Margot Fonteyn.
Whose shows included Gay's the Word and Glamorous Night?
A: Ivor Novello.
Which English actor shared the management of the Old Vic with
Laurence Olivier form 1944 to 1950?
A: Ralph Richardson.
Who wrote the poetic drama Murder in the Cathedral?
A: T S Eliot.
In which type of play is St. George a major character?
A: Mummers' play.
Which play of marital strife by Edward Albee was filmed with
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton?
A: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Which show contains the song 'Ol' Man River?
A: Showboat.
Which Caryl Churchill play of 1987 satirized London's brash young
financial brokers?
A: Serious Money.
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