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COMIC PLAYS

The UK has produced every kind of comic play, from sharp satire to downright farce. Take the EnCompass quiz to test your knowledge of theatre's wittiest writers. For hints and tips, search under the 'Drama' compass.

 

 Question 1.
Which playwright, originally born in Czechoslovakia, is the author of many plays including Jumpers and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?

Bill Naughton

Jonathan Harvey

Tom Stoppard

Steven Berkoff

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 Question 2.
In which play by Michael Frayn does the action centre around a cast rehearsing their own play, a farce called 'Nothing On'?

Alphabetical Order

Noises Off

Clouds

Copenhagen

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 Question 3.
Which of the following is not a play by Ben Elton?

Popcorn

Silly Cow

Gasping

Shooters

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 Question 4.
Which prolific British playwright penned the humorous plays A Chorus of Disapproval, Absurd Person Singular, and Bedroom Farce?

Alan Bennett

Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Davies

Alain de Botton

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 Question 5.
Which iconic and much-revived play by Mike Leigh is a sharp social satire on middle class suburbia?

Annabel's Party

Angela's Party

Alison's Party

Abigail's Party

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 Question 6.
Who wrote the plays Bouncers, Happy Families and Shakers?

John Godber

David Halliwell

Pater Straughan

Ayub Khan-Din

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 Question 7.
Which of the following is not a UK play that was later turned into a film?

The Madness of George III

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

Sink the Belgrano!

East is East

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 Question 8.
Which playwright, also a fiction writer and memoirist, wrote the plays Kafka's Dick, A Question of Attribution and The History Boys?

Tony Harrison

Jonathan Harvey

Alan Bennett

Terry Johnson

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 Question 9.
Tariq Ali and Howard Brenton wrote a satirical play which pokes fun at New Labour and takes as its title the name of Tony Blair's college band - what is it called?

Malicious Gossip

Ugly Rumours

Dirty Talk

Chinese Whispers

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 Question 10.
Who wrote the plays Cooking With Elvis, I Luv You Jimmy Spud, and the screenplay for Billy Elliot?

Mark Ravenhill

Lee Hall

Jonathan Harvey

Jim Cartwright

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