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Question

A trilogy of plays by this author meant to represent the stages of life opens with one in which a woman and a visitor fiddle with a locked suitcase played by a male actor. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author of Suitcase. Niki Junpei becomes trapped with a widow who endlessly shovels sand in this author’s novel Woman in the Dunes.

ANSWER: Kōbō Abe (“AH-beh”) [or Kimifusa Abe]

[10h] The second play in the trilogy, The Cliff of Time, is structured to follow a match of this sport. The aspiring violinist Joe Bonaparte becomes an athlete in this sport in a play by Clifford Odets.

ANSWER: boxing [or boxers; prompt on fighting]

[10e] The last play in the trilogy, The Man Who Turned into a Stick, includes a man and woman from this place. Garcin concludes that this place “is other people” at the end of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit.

ANSWER: hell [accept the underworld; accept the afterlife; accept “Hell is other people”; accept Man from Hell or Woman from Hell]

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Northern California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	33%	25%
Florida	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	0%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	14.29	100%	14%	29%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	13.64	91%	18%	27%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
UK	Main	Y	14	14.29	100%	29%	14%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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UCF B	UF E	10	10	20
USF	ERAU B	0	10	10
UF D	Melbourne A	0	10	10
UF B	UCF A	0	10	10