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Katie Mitchell’s installation Five Truths renders a scene from this play in the style of five directors, including one whose “study” of this play draws on Jan (“yahn”) Kott and set in a Polish peasant village. In an adaptation of this play, three naked women representing Marx, Lenin, and Mao (10[1])are beheaded (10[2])with an ax. Japanese “new drama” inspired a set consisting of only movable yellow screens (10[1])for a 1911 production of this play. A bleeding fridge and “clock heart” appear in Heiner Müller’s postmodern (10[1]-5[1])version of (10[1])this English play, which Edward (10[1])Gordon Craig and Konstantin Stanislavski staged at the Moscow (10[1])Art Theatre. (-5[1])In The Seagull, Treplieff mocks Trigorin with this play’s line, “Words, words, (10[2]-5[1])words.” (10[7])A Seneca-inspired possible source for this play (10[2])is dubbed “Ur.” For 10 points, The Murder (10[1])of Gonzago (10[1])appears in what play about a prince of Denmark? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Hamlet [or The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark] (Hamlet Study is by Jerzy Grotowski. Five Truths stages Ophelia’s mad scene in the manner of Konstantin Stanislavski, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook. Müller’s play is Hamletmachine.)
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