In the second act of this play, Steve’s joke about a white man with a black cellmate sparks a flurry of crude and offensive jokes. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Bruce Norris play in which Bev and Russ spurn their neighbors for mistreating Kenneth, their son who committed suicide after serving in the Korean War.
ANSWER: Clybourne Park
[10e] Bruce Norris’s play Clybourne Park is a response to this author’s play about the Younger family, A Raisin in the Sun.
ANSWER: Lorraine Hansberry [or Lorraine Vivian Hansberry]
[10h] Along with Hansberry’s play and Bruce Norris’s sequel, this play by Kwame Kwei-Armah completes the Raisin Cycle. This play chronicles the title character’s experiences as a medical student in Nigeria and later as an elderly faculty member at a California university.
ANSWER: Beneatha’s Place
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