Question

The Voice narrates the prologue of a play in this language that tells the spectator to watch the “perfect” title object “unwind the entire span of a human life.” In that play in this language, Anubis and the Sphinx (15[1])wait for the third trumpet call together. In a play in this language, a man gives birth to over 40,000 children (15[1])in (15[1])an afternoon (15[1])and his wife, whose breasts (15[1])float away like (15[1])balloons, (15[1])renames (15[1])herself (15[1])Tiresias. (15[5])A dog named Puff (15[2])features in a (15[1])20th-century update (-5[1])of (*) Antigone (-5[1])written (10[2])in (10[1])this language, (10[4]-5[1])which was also used for a play in which the antagonist Zeus sends the title creatures after (10[1])Orestes, (10[1])titled The Flies. (10[1])A woman (10[1])uses (10[1])a paper knife to stab Inèz (10[1])in a play (10[2])in this language (10[2])which claims (10[1])that “Hell is other people.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this language used to write the play No Exit. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: French [or Français] (The first two plays are Jean Cocteau’s The Infernal Machine and Guillaume Apollinaire’s The Breasts of Tiresias.)
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Kevin FlanaganBristolOxford7415
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