One of these places titles a memoir about the Stutthof concentration camp by the Lithuanian playwright Balys Sruoga (“buh-LEESE sroo-OH-guh”). For 10 points each:
[10h] What sort of place titles a 1922 novel about an Austro-Hungarian soldier by Liviu Rebreanu (“LEEV-yoo reb-ray-AH-noo”)? Ekdal says that these places “avenge themselves” after Hedvig shoots herself in front of a fake one in The Wild Duck.
ANSWER: forests [or woods or woodland; or skogen; accept Vienna Woods or Wienerwald; accept The Forest of the Hanged or Pădurea spânzuraților; accept The Forest of the Gods or Dievų miškas]
[10m] This author’s partly Romanian-language play Mad Forest examines Ceaușescu’s (“chow-SHESS-koo’s”) fall. This British author wrote updates of Strindberg’s A Dream Play and Seneca’s Thyestes (“thigh-ESS-teez”) and a play about a dinner attended by Pope Joan and Patient Griselda.
ANSWER: Caryl Churchill [or Caryl Lesley Churchill] (The play is Top Girls.)
[10e] Astrov laments forests disappearing from Russian maps in this Anton Chekhov play, a reworking of The Wood Demon titled for the manager of the provincial Serebryakov (“sair-uh-bree-KOFF”) estate.
ANSWER: Uncle Vanya [or Dyadya Vanya; or Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life; or Dyadya Vanya: Stseny iz derevenskoy zhizni; or Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts; or Dyadya Vanya: Stseny iz derevenskoy zhizni v chetyroykh deystviyakh]
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