Question
This is the first word in the title of a play in which the unseen dog George bites a guest’s leg, after Jane cleans an oven, unaware that Eva has just tried to asphyxiate herself in it. This word begins the title of a play that ends with a humiliating game of “Musical Forfeits” that two couples participate in at the behest of the social-climbing Sidney on the last of three successive Christmas Eves. Arthur Adamov is one of the four main authors analysed in a 1960 essay partly titled for this adjective by (*) Martin Esslin. In the title of a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn, this adjective precedes the words “Person Singular.” Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot both exemplify a genre called the “Theatre of,” for 10 points, what adjective that describes incongruous actions that lack meaning? ■END■
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Ethan Ashbrook | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | Our Job is Buzz | 36 | 15 |
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Chinmay Kansara | doubleplusnegfive | Palestrina Sawayama | 105 | -5 |
Guy Indorante | Palestrina Sawayama | doubleplusnegfive | 142 | 10 |