In a 2015 Robert O’Hara play, two different O’Mallery familys—one white and one Black—organize these events as pretexts for clumsy interventions. For 10 points each:
[10m] During what sort of event does the drunken teacher Rosemary rip a man’s shirt while trying to dance with him? The day after one of these title events, a drifter flees from the police by hopping a freight train to Tulsa.
ANSWER: picnics [or barbecues; prompt on parties; prompt on family reunions] (The plays are Barbecue and William Inge’s Picnic.)
[10e] In this play, Lily cancels her date with Sid after he comes home stinking drunk from a Fourth of July barbecue. An exclamation from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam titles this play, the only comedy by Eugene O’Neill.
ANSWER: Ah, Wilderness!
[10h] In this play, the ghost of Juicy’s father asks him to kill his uncle during a family barbecue. James Ijames (“imes”) won the the 2022 Pulitzer for Drama for this retelling of Hamlet.
ANSWER: Fat Ham
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