Question

This author committed suicide after writing a play devoid of characters or stage directions which is thought to represent the experience of living with depression. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of 4.48 Psychosis. A play by this author set in a hotel room ends after a woman gives food and gin to a man who had just eaten a baby.
ANSWER: Sarah Kane (The second play is Blasted.)
[10m] This author commended Sarah Kane’s play Blasted and called it “rather a tender play.” This author of Cloud 9 included several fictional and historical women in the play Top Girls.
ANSWER: Caryl Churchill [or Caryl Lesley Churchill]
[10e] At Sarah Kane’s funeral, this close friend of Kane only said, “she was a poet.” This author became popular with The Caretaker, a play written after the commercial failures The Birthday Party and The Dumbwaiter.
ANSWER: Harold Pinter
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Columbia AColumbia B0101020
Columbia CNYU A0101020
Johns HopkinsPenn10101030
VassarNYU B001010
John JayRowan1001020