1. Identify which play is being performed in each case from the descriptions given below. A
B
C D
D 326
THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN by Seán O’Casey
A return room in a tenement house in Hilljoy Square.
ANNIE by Thomas Meehan An orphanage in New York City in 1933.
A neglected little orphan who lives in a cruel institution and dreams of finding her real parents discovers that they died when she was a baby; but all ends happily when she is adopted by Oliver Warbucks, a millionaire New York businessman.
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH by Roald Dahl
A giant peach in which fantastically-dressed actors can travel.
Orphaned, mistreated James Henry Trotter escapes from his cruel Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, and sets off in a giant peach across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving in New York City after many fabulous adventures.
MACBETH by William Shakespeare
A desert place, thunder and lightning. Enter three witches.
The story of a noble, brave man who commits a murder for the sake of ambition and then descends into evil until he himself is murdered.
During the Irish War of Independence, the poet Donal Davoren is mistakenly admired by his poor tenement neighbours as a secret IRA gunman, but when British troops find ammunition in the house, the true heroic character turns out to be young Minnie Powell.
