David Cromer’s production of this play included the smell of frying bacon in the hyperrealistic last act to contrast with his bare staging of the earlier acts. (15[1])The first stage directions in this play are, “No curtain. No scenery,” (15[1])and the sound of a rooster’s crow. A girl in this play laments, “Oh, earth, (15[1])you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you” (15[1])after she bids “good-by” to “clocks ticking...and (15[1])Mama’s sunflowers.” This (15[1])play’s last act begins with the narrator setting up (*) three rows of chairs (10[1])that represent graves, (10[2])after which (10[1])their (10[1])inhabitants (10[2])sing “Blessed Be the Tie That Binds.” (10[2])A woman in this play asks if any people “ever realize life (10[1])while they live it?” after she relives her 12th birthday. For 10 points, name this play narrated by the Stage Manager and set in Grover’s Corners, by Thornton Wilder. ■END■