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, (10[1])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 and the moon appears (10[1])as a woodcutter. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this play by Federico García Lorca (10[1])in which the Bride abandons the Groom for Leonardo. ■END■

ANSWER: Blood Wedding [or Bodas de sangre]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eshan Pant (DII)NYU AJohns Hopkins5810
Andrew HannaPennRowan11410
Jack Rado (DII)Columbia BColumbia C11710
Forrest Weintraub (UG)Columbia AVassar12010
Ethan Furman (DII)HaverfordJohn Jay12710