IELTS - Test Yourself!
READING
Instructions to follow
Read the following passages and identify the play from the following texts.
This play will be staged in West End for the first time.
One of the actors speaks persuasively.
The place where the actors meet is not very well maintained
The West End of London refers to a distinct region of Central London, in which many of the city's theatres are located. A snapshot of plays running in the West End theaters:
The Price: David Suchet delivers a comic tour de force as a silver-tongued 90 year old furniture dealer in Arthur Miller's masterpiece, 'The Price'. Two brothers, Victor and Walter Franz, one a New York cop and the other a successful surgeon, meet for the first time in sixteen years to sell their family furniture. Revelation follows stunning revelation as each brother realises the price they have paid for heart breaking decisions made decades earlier.
The Night of the Iguana: Globe-winner Clive Owen returns to the West End for the first time in 18 years to play Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon in 'The Night of the Iguana', a new production directed by James Macdonald. Set in the strange limbo of 1940, in a hot and humid Mexico, a group of actors meet at the run-down Costa Verde Hotel, which brings them together in an epic battle between flesh and spirit, captivity and freedom, art and faith, heightened by a tropical rain-storm.
Answers
A – 2
Explanation: The word ‘ silver tongued ‘ means one who speaks persuasively. The word ‘ silver tongued gives you the clue to the answer.
B -3
Explanation: The word run-down means in a very bad condition due to lack of maintenance.
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