comedy of menace - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The literary critic Irving Wardle used this term to describe absurdist plays that “allow the agents and victims of destruction to come on and off duty” and “to joke about the situation while oiling a revolver.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this term, which describes the absurdist mixture of danger and humor in plays like The Birthday Party.

ANSWER: comedy of menace

[10e] The term “comedy of menace” was coined in response to the works of this absurdist British playwright, who wrote The Birthday Party.

ANSWER: Harold Pinter

[10h] Later in his career, Pinter shifted from writing comedies of menace to writing “memory plays,” like this work of his in which Deborah wakes up from a 30 year coma, still with the mind of a 16-year old but the body of a middle aged woman.

ANSWER: A Kind of Alaska

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	6	5.00	33%	17%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

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Tufts A	Boston College B	0	0	0	0
Bowdoin A	Clark Wilson	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin C	Clark House	0	0	0	0
BU	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Amherst	Yale	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Illinois Blue	10	10	10	30
North Carolina B	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Truman	Missouri	0	10	0	10
WashU	Squidward Community College	10	10	0	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	10	10	0	20
In the Mood for Buzz	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	10	0	20
Madmen and Specialists	Old and Young	10	10	10	30
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	The cult of SGA	0	10	0	10
bingy academy	Social credit go vroom	10	10	0	20
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Carleton A	10	10	0	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Waterloo Aspidistra	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Basic	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Lambert	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Innovation Academy A	0	10	0	10
Johns Creek	Milton	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Innovation Academy B	0	10	0	10
Pitt	Penn State	10	10	10	30
RIT	Maryland	0	10	0	10
UCF B	USF	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF C	10	10	0	20
Florida Tech	Valencia	0	0	0	0
Berkeley B	Berkeley Past	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	LSE B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Warwick C	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Anderson et al.	ALCU	10	10	0	20
Claremont	U[C]SD	0	10	0	10
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	0	10	0	10