Question

Which play by T.S. Eliot won a Tony Award for Best Play?

• A. "Murder in the Cathedral"
• B. "The Family Reunion"
• C. "The Cocktail Party"
• D. "The Elder Statesman"

Answer 1

Answer:

C. "The Cocktail Party"

• T.S. Eliot's play The Cocktail Party won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1950. 

• The Cocktail Party was a verse drama that was Eliot's most commercially successful play. It was written in free verse and was a modernized version of a comedy by Euripides. Eliot was working on the play when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. 

• Other works by T.S. Eliot The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), and The Hollow Men (1925)