Packet O: Tossup 10

Recent stagings of this play include a candlelit 2023 version in a Manhattan loft, a one-man show by Simon Stephens starring Andrew Scott, (10[1])and a 2024 adaptation (10[1])by (10[1])Heidi Schreck starring Steve Carell. Andre Gregory used abandoned spaces (10[1])to rehearse David Mamet’s version of this play, as shown in a Louis Malle (“mahl”) film set on 42nd Street. Two characters in (10[1])this play, one of whom repeatedly tells the other “We shall rest” in its final lines, (10[1]-5[1])inspired the names of the first two title siblings in a Christopher (-5[1])Durang play. (-5[1])The pockmarked laborer Waffles strums his guitar (10[1])throughout this play, in which both the doctor Astrov and the protagonist are enamored with Yelena, the wife of the professor Serebryakov. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, the title estate manager (10[1])bemoans his life in what Anton Chekhov play? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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