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A woman in this play tells her husband, “I want you making love to me without ghosts in bed,” after repeatedly mocking him with the phrase, “Beyond repair, huh? Irreparable.” In this play, a woman realizes that she had met a man before when she overhears him use the phrase “teensy-weensy” and quote Nietzsche in a conversation with her husband. This play ends (10[1])with an orchestra playing Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet (10[2])while spotlights (10[1])scan (10[1])the audience and a (10[1])mirror lowers from the ceiling. (10[7])In this play, (10[2])a doctor (10[1])substitutes (10[1])the name “Stud” in for “Bud” while confessing his sins into a tape recorder. A woman ties up a man and puts him on trial for torturing her during her imprisonment in this play set in the aftermath of an unnamed Latin American dictatorship. For 10 points, Paulina and Gerardo hold Roberto Miranda hostage in what play by Ariel (10[1])Dorfman (10[1])titled for (10[1])a Schubert string quartet? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Death and the Maiden [or La muerte y la doncella]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%0%91.52

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Wenying WuToronto AYale B6210
Richard NiuCornell BClaremont A6910
Amogh KulkarniChicago BImperial A6910
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AFlorida A7110
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BMcGill A7210
Justin ChenNYU ABrown A7610
Matt JacksonChicago AMaryland A8110
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AIndiana A8110
Mitch McCullarIllinois AFlorida B8110
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AMichigan A8110
Daniel SheinbergYale ARutgers B8110
Tim MorrisonStanford AMinnesota B8110
Nathan ZhangCornell ANorth Carolina A8110
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AVirginia A8410
Clark SmithOhio State AUC Berkeley B8410
Darren PetrosinoRutgers APenn A8610
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AVanderbilt A8710
Ani PerumallaPenn State ADuke A14610
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AIowa State A14710
Noah SheidlowerColumbia ATexas A14910
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AGeorgia Tech B15310