Packet K: Tossup 3

A 1988 all-female production of this play sparked a lawsuit by this play’s author, leading to a brief (10[3])ban on all (10[1])productions of the author’s plays in the Netherlands. (10[2])Because of its all-male cast, (-5[1])this (10[1])play was staged by San Quentin State (-5[1])Prison inmates (10[1])in one of the first (10[1])successful (10[1])performances (10[2])of it in the US. A candlelit staging of this play during the Siege of (10[1])Sarajevo (10[6])was directed (10[1])by Susan Sontag. (10[1]-5[1])A character (10[1])eating a (10[1])carrot (10[1])in this play (10[3])is (10[1])interrupted (10[1])by (10[1])the arrival (10[2])of a man (10[1])whose command to “Think!” (10[5])prompts (10[2])a speech (10[2])that is (10[3])cut off (10[1])by grabbing (10[1])the (10[1])speaker’s hat. At the end (10[1])of this play, (10[1])a man who peers into his hat and a man who struggles with his boots (10[1])lament not having rope to hang (10[1])themselves with. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Vladimir and (10[1])Estragon (10[1])appear (10[1])in what absurdist play by Samuel (10[1])Beckett? ■END■ (10[2])

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