Question

A 2022 revival of this play in London’s Almeida Theatre was the last joint appearance of married actors Marcello Magni and Kathryn Hunter. A character in this play often consoles another by telling him that he could have had occupations like “head president, head king, or even head doctor.” Stage directions instruct the lighting to steadily increase throughout this play until a moment when fanfares play from the wings of its semicircular set. (10[1])It’s not Waiting for Godot, but characters from this play echo “he will come” before a man enters dressed (10[1])like a 19th-century painter. At the end of this play, that (-5[1])character makes “guttural (10[1])sounds” like (10[1])“heu, heu, gu you” before writing the word “ANGELFOOD” (10[4])on a (10[1])blackboard. (10[4])In this play, the Emperor is among the dozens of invisible (10[1])characters who arrive (10[2])to see a speech (-5[1])by the Orator. For 10 (10[1])points, name this Eugene Ionesco play about an elderly (-5[1])couple in a room full (10[1])of furniture. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: The Chairs [or Les Chaises]
<European Literature>
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2496%0%13%126.96

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins ARutgers B7210
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AHarvard A9110
Wenying WuToronto ANorthwestern A102-5
Daniel SheinbergYale AChicago B10510
Nathan ZhangCornell AChicago A10710
Nathan SheffieldMIT AColumbia A11610
Ani PerumallaPenn State AGeorgia Tech B11610
Mitch McCullarIllinois AWUSTL B11610
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AOhio State A11610
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AIowa State A11810
Justin ChenNYU APurdue A11910
Jisoo YooTexas ANorth Carolina A11910
Steven YuanUC Berkeley BMichigan A11910
Tracy MirkinFlorida AMaryland A11910
Karsten RynearsonYale BClaremont A13010
Justin HawkinsIndiana AMinnesota A13310
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AStanford A13310
Anson BernsBrown ADuke A137-5
Tiffany ZhouFlorida BMinnesota B14210
Sean DoyleHouston AColumbia B151-5
Enoch YuenImperial AVanderbilt A15610
Robert CondronChicago CCornell B15810
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AToronto A15810
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina APenn A15910
Ashish SubramanianDuke ABrown A15910
Kevin FanMcGill AVirginia A15910
David BassVirginia AMcGill A1590