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Can you identify the first lines of these plays? – quiz

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Do you know your Pinter from your Ibsen? Your Frayn from your Kane? See if you can recognise these opening lines of 10 classic plays

Quiz: Can you identify these character actors?
  1. 1.“If music be the food of love, play on”
  2. 2.“I’ve shat in better places than this”
  3. 3.“What have you done with the scissors?”
  4. 4.“She says St Barnabas would send out his dog to lick her and when he did she’d feel an icy cold wave all up an’ down her.”
  5. 5.“Hide the Christmas tree carefully, Helen”
  6. 6.“It’s no good you going on. I can’t open sardines <i>and</i> answer the phone.”
  7. 7.“I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley?”
  8. 8."Wake up. Stop dreaming. The cars will be here soon."
  9. 9."Oh, that woman gets on my nerves!"
  10. 10."In sooth, I know not why I am so sad"

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