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For Marina Carr’s 2019 production of this play, Thalissa Teixeira (“tuh-LEE-suh tay-SHAIR-uh”) performed a cappella songs that crescendo into screams. Characters in this play gossip about the purchase of stockings decorated with a swallow, a boat, and a rose. A character in this play with honor “brighter than a white sheet in the sun” asks for a knife to eat grapes, to which his mother (10[1])responds, “Knives, knives… curse them all, and the wretch who invented them.” (10[1])A character in this play reveals that another character’s orange blossoms were made of wax. After two characters flee this play’s title event, they are pursued into a forest where Death appears (10[1])as a beggar woman and the moon appears as a (10[1])woodcutter. (10[1])For 10 points, name (10[1])this play by Federico García Lorca in which the Bride (10[1])abandons the Groom for Leonardo. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Blood Wedding [or Bodas de sangre]
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Michael KohnDurham ABristol6210
Omer KeskinOxford ACambridge C7410
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghKiel10610
Harrison WhitakerCambridge ADurham B11610
Enoch YuenImperial ASheffield11710
Eliza DeanOxford BKCL12110
Thomas HartWarwickOxford C13110
Jaime Salamanca CamachoImperial BCambridge B1370
Ben LaFondCambridge BImperial B1370