Modern drama quiz

If you are to make a good job of studying modern drama you should be able to answer the following questions.

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1. What modern play was written for an entire community to perform?
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2. Name the playwright of a modern play that consists entirely of a monologue.
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3. What play uses the conventions of 'the fourth wall', 'flashbacks' and 'direct address' to the audience?
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4. In which play do members of the cast order the audience to leave?
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5. How does Robert Bolt employ the 'Common Man'?
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6. In which play is the audience expected to believe that some of the characters are speaking in Gaelic while others speak English?
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7. Which conventions does John Godber use in Bouncers?
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8. Name a modern play in which both verse and realistic prose are used?
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9. Which play entirely consists of the reading and writing of letters?
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10. How would you describe the audience's experience of the Marat/Sade?
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11. What convention is used in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good?
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12. Name a play that covers a very large passage of time.
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13. What theatrical device is often used to denote the passing of time?
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14. Name a play in which characters from different periods of time actually meet.
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15. Which modern British playwright experiments frequently with the conventions of space?
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16. Give an example of the convention of 'off-stage' life.
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17. Name a play that ends with one of the characters asking the audience a question.
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18. In which play by David Hare are differing locations represented by a bare stage?
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19. Name a play that appears to work backwards in time sequence.
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20. Which modern play explores the pressures of 'selling'?
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