Euripides - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

In a play inspired by this author, Pentheus's head leaks blood, which is transformed into wine used for the title “Communion Rite.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this playwright who inspired Wole Soyinka's adaptation of The Bacchae, which is set amid civil unrest in Nigeria.

ANSWER: Euripides

[10h] This Ghanaian playwright, who pulled from Akan mythology for her play The Marriage of Anansewa, wrote the play Edufa based on Euripides' play Alcestis.

ANSWER: Efua Sutherland [or Efua Theodora Sutherland]

[10m] Femi Osofisan created the characters Anlugbua and Lawumi in a play set in the Owu Kingdom inspired by this Euripides play. In this play, Talthybius carries onto the stage the corpse of Astyanax.

ANSWER: The Trojan Women

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	16.00	60%	80%	20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Michigan B	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Brandeis	Yale B	10	0	0	10
JHU B	Maryland	0	0	0	0
Houston	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	0	0	0
Michigan State	Carnegie Mellon	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
UCF	UF A	10	0	10	20
MIT	Harvard A	10	0	10	20
Harvard B	Tufts	10	0	10	20
5	Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co	10	10	10	30
The Crying of Team 49	LSE	0	0	0	0
3HK1MM	Limp Chriskit	10	0	10	20
UNC A	UNC C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Minnesota	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Purdue	WUSTL	10	0	10	20
UF C	UF B	10	0	0	10
BU	Yale A	0	0	0	0
Columbia	NYU A	10	0	10	20
Princeton	NYU B	10	0	0	10
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors	Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest.	10	0	10	20
Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas	We jopping	10	0	0	10
bruh	TOAD	10	0	10	20
TAMU	Texas B	0	0	0	0
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul	See it	0	0	10	10
Gressenheller A	Oxford School for Quizness	10	0	10	20
Say it	Sorted	10	10	10	30
RIT A	Duke A	10	0	0	10
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10