The Octoroon - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In the prologue to an adaptation of this play, the author BJJ is taunted by the Playwright while attempting to stage this play. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this play that focuses on the residents of Terrebonne. A 2014 play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins reworks this Dion Boucicault (“boo-see-COH”) melodrama.

ANSWER: The Octoroon

[10m] In its day, The Octoroon was surpassed in popularity only by plays depicting this character, known as his namesake “shows.” Anti-[this character] literature includes William Gilmore Simms’s The Sword and the Distaff.

ANSWER: Uncle Tom

[10e] Zoe, the title character of Jacobs-Jenkins’s play, is one of these people. These people’s narratives inspired much of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

ANSWER: slaves [or enslaved people; accept slave narratives]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%

Data


Bard A	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Penn A	Penn B	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Penn State A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
UIUC D	Miami	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Notre Dame	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	SIUE A	0	0	10	10
WashU C	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
UChicago D	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
UChicago C	UIUC A	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UIUC B	10	0	10	20
UIUC C	UChicago B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers C	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State C (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	0	10	10	20
CWRU C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Kenyon B (DII)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	10	10
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	Michigan State A	10	10	10	30
Pitt B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Michigan D (DII)	Michigan State C (UG)	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Iowa	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Mississippi State	0	0	10	10
Oregon State	McGill E	0	0	10	10
Colorado College	Texas C	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	Texas D	0	0	10	10
NYU B	WUSTL A	0	0	10	10
Florida Tech A	UF D	0	0	10	10
UF E	UF F	0	0	10	10
UCF A	Florida State University A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Bristol A	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Cambridge D	0	0	10	10
Durham	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	LSE A	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	0	10	10