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1. George Bernard Shaw wrote a play about the romanticising of war and created the mythical character of the Chocolate Cream Soldier, who didn't really exist except in the mind of a romantic girl. Which play was it?
2. Agatha Christie wrote a play about people trapped in a lonely house in a snowstorm, with one of them a killer about to kill again.
3. Arthur Miller wrote this play about the trials and tribulations of the life of Willy Loman and his family.
4. Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart's rise to greatness, and his great rivalry with Salieri.
5. Shakespeare's tale of a disturbed prince, tortured by thoughts that his own mother might be party to the murder of his father, and his desire for revenge against his murdering stepfather.
6. In Beckett's famous play, Estragon and Vladimir are hanging around in a perpetual state of boredom.
7. Is Jack really Jack, or can he be Ernest? He has to go to great lengths to find out the value of truth! This is one of Oscar's Wilde's best and funniest.
8. Shakespeare writes about Antonio who has borrowed money from Shylock. Shylock now wants his 'pound of flesh' and Antonio's life. Antonio's friend Bassanio and his lady love Portia must save Antonio from death. Can they?
9. Love and intrigue and enjoyment galore, with Mrs Malaprop adding a touch of hilarity by mispronouncing and misusing words. A comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
10. A shipwreck, an island, a lovelorn young man, a beautiful sheltered girl, her domineering father, a mischief-making sprite...all this makes for lots of confusion and misunderstanding before it all ends the way it should. A play by Shakespeare.
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