Question

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 responds, “Knives, knives… curse them all, and the wretch who invented them.” 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 as a beggar woman (10[2])and the moon appears as a woodcutter. (10[2])For 10 points, name this play by Federico García Lorca in which the Bride (10[2])abandons the Groom (10[2])for Leonardo. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Blood Wedding [or Bodas de sangre]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)JMU B (UG)11010
Connor Mayers (UG)Maryland A (Grad)Duke A (UG)11010
Jim Fan (Grad)UNC A (Grad)JMU A (UG)11710
Munir Siddiqui (UG)Maryland B (UG)Liberty B (DII)11710
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)Virginia B (UG)13110
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)William & Mary A (UG)13110
Ian He (UG)UNC C (UG)GWU B (Grad)13410
Andrew Amygdalos (UG)GWU A (UG)Liberty C (DII)13410
Noelle Ropp (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)Virginia C (UG)13710