The artist Gerald Byrne created a speculative reconstruction of this object after it was destroyed in riots in Paris. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this theater prop created with plaster by Alberto Giacometti. It replaced a version by Roger Blin made out of wire coat hangers and tissue paper.
ANSWER: the tree in Waiting for Godot [prompt on tree]
[10h] The sight of a bare tree in a landscape destroyed by this event inspired Paul Chan’s staging of Waiting for Godot. In a novel, the pregnant teenage protagonist is upset when her crush Manny rejects her before this event, which is also the subject of Dave Eggers’s book Zeitoun.
ANSWER: Hurricane Katrina (The novel is Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones.)
[10e] This author also featured the iconic bare tree when she went to war-torn Sarajevo to stage Godot. This critic wrote “Notes on ‘Camp’” and Illness as Metaphor.
ANSWER: Susan Sontag [or Susan Lee Sontag or Susan Lee Rosenblatt]
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