In a play, an expert on this art form who is trying to use it to create a device for heart surgery admits that one of her creations “lacks a rabbit essence” while arguing with the teenage prodigy Suresh. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this art form that characters try to use to save a dying child after a nuclear bombing in Armand Gatti’s play The Stork, which is inspired by the real-life case of Sadako Sasaki.
ANSWER: origami [or paper folding; prompt on paper]
[10h] Animals Out of Paper is by this author of a 2022 play about LeBron fans titled King James. In a play by this author, Musa shoots Tom in the stomach after hiding a golden toilet seat in a leper colony.
ANSWER: Rajiv Joseph (The play is Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.)
[10m] Red origami cranes litter the stage at the start of Porcelain by Chay Yew, whose cast is mostly “voices” specified to be played by actors with this trait. These people title the best-known play by Young Jean Lee.
ANSWER: white men [accept word forms or synonyms of white AND male; accept Straight White Men; prompt on any subset of straight, male, or white that doesn’t include both underlined words]
<JK, American Literature>