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This play’s script includes back-to-back speeches written in untranslated Ancient Greek and Hebrew, which are recited by a man playing a guitar and a man who parts his beard. After seven characters in this play get ptomaine (“TOH-main”) poisoning, a character blames a lemon meringue pie with blue mold. (10[1])Howling animals drown out a singing telegram wishing a woman a happy anniversary in this play’s first act, which ends with a character asking the audience to pass up their chairs so they can be added to a fire. In this play’s second act, a character disguised as Miss Atlantic City seduces (10[1])the (10[1])president of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Mammals, who is father to a boy who is renamed Cain after killing his brother. For 10 points, the maid Lily Sabina serves the Antrobus family in what Thornton Wilder play, titled for their slim margin of survival? ■END■

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