B) Answer the questions on the text. 1) What makes theatre people superstitious?

1) What makes theatre people superstitious?

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2) Can we explain the origins of all the superstitions?

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3) Theatre folks aren’t logical, are they?

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4) Do theatre superstitions have any charm?

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5) What name should be avoided in English theatre? Which should be used instead?

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6) Which explanation for the cruel leg-breaking wish do you find most probable?

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7) What is the ghostly theatrical superstition?

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8) How should one deal with flowers in English theatre?

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9) What do superstitions say about props?

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10) *What superstitions should be introduced to a beginning actor first of all, to your mind?

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11) How should a first night be prepared for according to the superstitions?

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12) Do theater superstitions have any sense?

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13) *Have you heard about any other theatrical superstition? Describe it.

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C) Retell the text.

A) Study the difference between the nouns play and performance

play – a piece of writing performed by actors in a theatre or on TV

Othello is one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays

performance – the action or an act of performing a play, a character in a play,

a piece of music etc.

His performance as Othello was very good.

All the tickets for the evening performance are sold.