Which of the following statements applies to John McGrath?
McGrath was born in Scotland to Welsh parents and educated in England.
McGrath was born in England to Irish parents and educated in Wales.
McGrath was born in Wales to English parents and educated in Scotland.
The Everyman Theatre, where McGrath worked for two years, was interested in staging what type of plays?
Tragic plays based on wealthy people
Comic plays about politicians
Social plays about the working class
Which of the following statements did McGrath believe to be true?
Theatre was entertaining but not all that important
Theatre had the power to make people less interested in social issues
Theatre had the power to change people’s opinions on important issues
The theatre company 7:84 took their name from a statistic published where?
The Sun in 1992
The Economist in 1966
The Liverpool Chronical in 1972
To what does the statistic 7:84 refer?
The fact that only 7% of the population own 84% of the wealth
The fact that over 84% of the population own 7% of the wealth
The fact that only 7 men in Britain made more than 84 million pounds in that year
With whom did McGrath found the theatre company 7:84?
His best friend and his son
His wife and her brother
His brother and his brother’s wife
Which of the following definitions best describes capitalism?
A social and economic system in which a majority of people are wealthy
A social and economic system in which only a handful of people own significant wealth
A social and economic system in which everyone benefits and shares the wealth equally.
Which of these is a key technique in Brechtian theatre?
‘slamming the third door’
‘smashing the fifth window’
‘breaking the fourth wall’
What did McGrath insist that his company of actors should be involved with?
Tidying up the hall after each performance
Researching the history of the Highlands
Making the posters advertising the performances
Why is music used so often in the play?
To inject the play with exuberance and vitality
To create a tone of lamentation
To show the audience what traditional Scottish music sounds like