Question
While acting in this play, Ralph Richardson asked the audience, “is there a doctor in the house?”, and when a doctor raised his hand, Richardson said “terrible play, isn’t it doctor?” and resumed acting. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play that premiered in 1966 after its author’s murder by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. At the end of this play, a sergeant wearing a dress descends from a skylight and asks for a politician’s “missing parts.”
ANSWER: What the Butler Saw (by Joe Orton)
[10e] Peter Hall directed Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud (“GHEEL-good”) in this author’s play No Man’s Land. This playwright wrote The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter.
ANSWER: Harold Pinter
[10m] Gielgud and Richardson also starred together in David Storey’s play Home, which is set in this sort of place. The frame stories of Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade and Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists occur in these places.
ANSWER: mental asylums [or sanatoriums; or insane asylums; or psychiatric hospitals; or mental hospitals; prompt on hospitals]
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