2. Answer the following questions:
1. What forms of theatre performance are there?
2. Where did theatre appear?
3. Where was the drama of the Middle Ages acted out?
4. What theatres in London do you know?
5. When did theatre life in Britain develop intensively?
6. What is the most important performance centre in the USA?
3. Match the words with similar meaning:
| 1) show | a) leading actor |
| 2) star | b) company |
| 3) contemporary | c) unforgettable |
| 4) audience | d) decoration |
| 5) troupe | e) performance |
| 6) memorable | f) spectators |
| 7) design | g) modern |
4. Find the proper place for the words under the line:
Cinema has not destroyed live _________, as some thought it would. Theatre-going actually increased during the 20th century, the age of ________. The theatre and the cinema have a sort of symbolic relationship, with many _________, _______ and _________ doing both. Sir Anthony Hopkings, Hew Grant and Emma Thompson all had careers on the _______ before going into films. The theatre writer Tom Stoppard wrote the ___________for the hugely successful “Shakespeare in Love”. Actors in the theatre quite often go into films for the ________ and ________, and later come back to the stage for the _________ and artistic ____________.
Screenplay, film, writers, satisfaction, money, pleasure, theatre, actors, directors, fame, stage.