Plays & Playwrights
As Shakespeare said, "The play's the thing." And Crowdpurr says, "This trivia game about plays and playwrights is also a thing."
15 questions · Published August 29, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What 1987 community theater staple by Robert Harling takes place in and around Truvy's in-home beauty parlor in Chinquapin, Louisiana?
Robert Harling wrote "Steel Magnolias" (1987) based on his experience with his sister's death. The title refers to female characters who are delicate as magnolias, but tough as steel.
- Multiple Choice
2. Neil Simon's trio of "quasi-autobiographical" plays, starting with "Brighton Beach Memoirs," are collectively known as the "______ Trilogy."
The three plays ("Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983), "Biloxi Blues" (1985), and 1986's "Broadway Bound") deal with chapters in Neil Simon's life, as shown through the experiences of his alter ego, Eugene Jerome. For this reason, the plays are collectively known as the Eugene Trilogy.
- Multiple Choice
3. Rick Elice's award-winning prequel to J.M. Barrie's "Peter and Wendy" is called "Peter and the _____________."
Based on the 2004 novel by humorist Dave Barry and thriller writer Ridley Pearson, "Peter and the Starcatcher" provides a backstory for the major characters in J.M. Barrie's celebrated 1904 play "Peter and Wendy."
- Multiple Choice
4. Whose celebrated works are comedically retold in Matt Cox's "Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic"?
Premiering at The People's Improv Theater in 2015, "Puffs" runs through the events of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter," but told from the perspective of ancillary characters at Hogwarts.
- Multiple Choice
5. For which of these plays did Edward Albee NOT win a Pulitzer Prize?
One of America's most celebrated playwrights, Edward Albee won three Pulitzer Prizes and was shortlisted two additional times. But while his most famous work, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," was chosen by the Pulitzer committee in 1963, the selection was overruled by the trustees of Columbia University due to its controversial subject matter and language. No award was given that year.
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