'Free Theatre' refers to which group that put on plays banned elsewhere?

• A. IATSE
• B. Meyerhold
• C. George Farquhar
• D. Freie Buhne

Answer: (D)

The concept here is a movement that created its own venue to stage works that mainstream theatres wouldn’t, pushing back against censorship and bourgeois taste. Freie Buhne, literally “Free Stage,” was a German group in the late 19th century formed to present plays banned or refused elsewhere, giving authors and audiences access to contemporary realism and naturalism that bigger theatres wouldn’t accommodate. This is why Freie Buhne is the best answer—it directly embodies a free, independent stage set up to showcase controversial or forbidden plays. The other names don’t refer to a collective that operated as a separate venue for banned works: IATSE is a stage workers’ union, Meyerhold is a Russian director known for avant-garde techniques, and George Farquhar was a Restoration playwright.