Upon receiving the snakeskin jacket of a man who represents this mythological figure, Carol remarks that “wild things leave skins behind them” so that “the fugitive kind can always follow their kind.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this title figure of a 1957 play adapted from its author’s earlier Battle of Angels. In that play, this figure is represented by Val, who dies in a fire set by Lady Torrance’s jealous husband.
ANSWER: Orpheus [accept Orpheus Descending] (Tennessee Williams wrote Orpheus Descending.)
[10e] In Orpheus Descending, Carol says she met Val in this city. In another Tennessee Williams play set in this city, Blanche tries to stop Stanley from reading her dead husband’s love letters.
ANSWER: New Orleans [or NOLA] (The second play is A Streetcar Named Desire.)
[10m] In this playwright’s Eurydice, Orpheus is unable to read a love letter after riding an elevator that rains inside. She also wrote In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play).
ANSWER: Sarah Ruhl
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