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Katie Mitchell’s installation Five Truths renders a scene from this play in the style of five directors, including one whose “study” of this play draws on Jan (“yahn”) Kott and set in a Polish peasant village. In an adaptation of this play, three naked women representing Marx, Lenin, and Mao (10[1])are beheaded (10[2])with an ax. Japanese “new drama” inspired a set consisting of only movable yellow screens (10[1])for a 1911 production of this play. A bleeding fridge and “clock heart” appear in Heiner Müller’s postmodern (10[1]-5[1])version of (10[1])this English play, which Edward (10[1])Gordon Craig and Konstantin Stanislavski staged at the Moscow (10[1])Art Theatre. (-5[1])In The Seagull, Treplieff mocks Trigorin with this play’s line, “Words, words, (10[2]-5[1])words.” (10[7])A Seneca-inspired possible source for this play (10[2])is dubbed “Ur.” For 10 points, The Murder (10[1])of Gonzago (10[1])appears in what play about a prince of Denmark? ■END■ (10[3])

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