Round 12: 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, and a 2024 adaptation by Heidi Schreck starring Steve Carell. Andre Gregory used abandoned spaces to rehearse David Mamet’s version of this play, as shown in a Louis Malle (“mahl”) film set on 42nd Street. Two characters in this play, one of whom repeatedly tells the other “We shall rest” in its final lines, inspired the names of the first two title siblings in a Christopher Durang play. The pockmarked laborer Waffles strums his guitar throughout this play, in which both the doctor Astrov and the protagonist are enamored with Yelena, the wife of the professor Serebryakov. For 10 points, the title estate manager bemoans his life in what Anton Chekhov play? ■END■
ANSWER: Uncle Vanya [or Dyádya Ványa] (Louis Malle’s film is Vanya on 42nd Street, and Christopher Durang’s play is Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.)
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