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A play by this author, in which a viper bites a woman named both “Marguerite Ida” and “Helena Annabel,” was mashed up with Olga’s House of Shame by the Wooster Group and revived at the Hebel Theater by Robert Wilson. The Living Theatre’s first piece was this author’s “curtain raiser” Ladies’ Voices. This author implemented a theory of the “play as landscape” in Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. A novel by Wolfgang Koeppen takes its title from a work by this author that ends with a ghostly voice declaiming on “my long life, my long life” after a (*) statue is unveiled at the US Capitol. In a theatrical work with text by this author, (10[1])Ignatius wonders “if a magpie in the sky (-5[1])on the sky can not cry” (10[1])after seeing “pigeons on the grass (10[2])alas.” (10[3])This author wrote a libretto about Susan B. Anthony for The Mother of Us All. For (10[1])10 points, what author collaborated with Virgil Thompson (10[2])on Four Saints in Three Acts? ■END■ (0[1])

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