Pop Quiz

1.What year was the first professional theatre company in Nigeria founded?

2.Hubert Ogunde started the first theatre company in Nigeria and he named it___?

3. What was the name of Moses Olaiya’s theatre company?

4. List one title of Moses Olaiya’s play.

5. The play “ Tiger’s Empire” was written by -------

6. The first school of drama in Nigeria started in what year ?

7. Who wrote the plays “ Oba Moro” and “ Oba Koso”?

8. List two titles of Adeyemi Afolayan’s works.

9. The first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was ___?

10. The first professor of Theatre Arts in Africa was ---?

11. Who wrote the play “Once Upon Four Robbers “?

12. “Death and the King’s Horseman” and “Madmen and Specialists” were both written
by---

13. List two plays by Harold Pinter----

14. Name TWO American and TWO French playwrights discussed in class---

15. What country was Nikolai Gogol from?

16. Who wrote “The American Clock” and “Death of a Salesman”?

17. ----- is known as the father of Nigerian theatre.

18.List TWO plays by Edward Albee----

19. What year did the Playwright John Pepper Clark ( J.P.Clark) die?

20.The person that hides behind the stage to remind actors of their lines when they forget is
the----tonyabolojr23@gmail.com.