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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2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y215.0050%100%0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y412.5075%50%0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y813.7588%50%0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y215.00100%50%0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y412.5075%50%0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y310.0067%33%0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest10/12/2024Y420.00100%75%25%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y25.0050%0%0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y516.0060%80%20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y310.00100%0%0%

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Berkeley AStanford1001020
Berkeley CBerkeley B001010
Ohio State AMichigan A0000
Chicago ANotre Dame A1001020
Illinois ANorthwestern A1001020
Indiana AIllinois B100010
Chicago BIndiana B0000
MinnesotaSIUE100010
Notre Dame CNorthwestern B100010
Notre Dame BIllinois C1001020
PurdueWUSTL1001020
Michigan BOhio State B100010
Ohio State CPittsburgh1001020
UCFUF A1001020
UF CUF B100010
BrandeisYale B100010
MITHarvard A1001020
Harvard BTufts1001020
BUYale A0000
ColumbiaNYU A1001020
PrincetonNYU B100010
JHU BMaryland0000
TAMUTexas B0000
HoustonTexas A100010
5Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co10101030
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl EditorsOh you like geography? Name every Forrest.1001020
Why the Kremlin Hates BananasWe jopping100010
bruhTOAD1001020
Four Times I Have Despised My SoulSee it001010
Gressenheller AOxford School for Quizness1001020
The Crying of Team 49LSE0000
3HK1MMLimp Chriskit1001020
Say itSorted10101030
RIT ADuke A100010
UNC BVirginia Tech A100010
UNC AUNC C100010
Michigan StateCarnegie Mellon1001020