Round 4: Tossup 14

In a speech, a man in this play says that “to go through life and call it yours… you first have to get your own pain.” In this play, an image of Christ on the way to Calvary is replaced above the bed of a character who often sings the Doublemint gum jingle and uses the word “chinkle-chankle.” An enthusiast of Greek art in this play has a dream in which he performs ritual sacrifices in Argos (15[1])until his mask slips off. A character in this play runs into his atheist father Frank at an (*) adult movie, which he reveals upon taking a placebo “truth pill.” After a failed tryst with Jill, that character in this play uses a spike to blind six onlookers. (10[1])For 10 points, the psychiatrist Martin Dysart talks with the sexually repressed teen Alan Strang (10[1])about his animal obsession in what play by Peter Shaffer? ■END■

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