When the title character of this play remembers his mother’s death, he focuses on the word “viduity” and the time he gave a ball to a dog instead of throwing it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this one-act play in which a 69-year old man celebrates his birthday by listening to recordings he made when he was younger.
ANSWER: Krapp’s Last Tape
[10m] This Irish author wrote the plays Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame as well as a play in which the slave Lucky is commanded to dance and “think!”
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]
[10e] Lucky appears in this Beckett play in which Vladimir and Estragon are expecting the title character, who never shows up.
ANSWER: Waiting for Godot
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