Packet 3: Bonus 7
A lavish outdoor adaptation of this work was timed to run exactly from sunset to sunrise and used what the director referred to as “colour-rich” casting from around the world. For 10 points each:
[10h] Peter Brook spent 10 years adapting what work into a nine-hour-long play with Jean-Claude Carrière? That adaptation was first staged in a quarry outside Avignon in 1985.
ANSWER: the Mahabharata [accept Le Mahabharata]
[10e] In Peter Brook’s epic production of the Mahabharata, the dialogue between Karna and Kunti adapts this author’s poetry word-for-word. This Bengali Nobel Laureate’s own dramas include The Post Office.
ANSWER: Rabindranath Tagore [or Rabindranath Thakur]
[10m] Tagore drew on the Mahabharata for Chitrangada, one of a group of four dramas performed in this manner. Aattakatha are costumed dramas performed in this manner within the Malayali genre of kathakali.
ANSWER: dance [accept word forms like dancing; accept dance-dramas or nritya-nāṭya; accept Rabindra Nritya Natya]
<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 15.12 | 100% | 42% | 9% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C R A B S | Dielectrical Materialism | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs | Dour Straits | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| No Country for Old Quizzers | Vacuous Tortoise | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy | A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |