Kōbō Abe - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

A trilogy of plays by this author meant to represent the stages of life opens with one in which a woman and a visitor fiddle with a locked suitcase played by a male actor. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author of Suitcase. Niki Junpei becomes trapped with a widow who endlessly shovels sand in this author’s novel Woman in the Dunes.

ANSWER: Kōbō Abe (“AH-beh”) [or Kimifusa Abe]

[10h] The second play in the trilogy, The Cliff of Time, is structured to follow a match of this sport. The aspiring violinist Joe Bonaparte becomes an athlete in this sport in a play by Clifford Odets.

ANSWER: boxing [or boxers; prompt on fighting]

[10e] The last play in the trilogy, The Man Who Turned into a Stick, includes a man and woman from this place. Garcin concludes that this place “is other people” at the end of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit.

ANSWER: hell [accept the underworld; accept the afterlife; accept “Hell is other people”; accept Man from Hell or Woman from Hell]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	33%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	0%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	100%	14%	29%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
North	Main	Y	11	13.64	91%	18%	27%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	14.29	100%	29%	14%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley D	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley F	UCSC	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley E	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford C	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCI	10	10	10	30
Claremont Scripps	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA C	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	10	10
USC	UCLA D	0	0	10	10
UCSB	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	10	10
Toronto J	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto K	10	10	10	30
Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Waterloo	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Western Ontario	Guelph A	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Guelph B	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	McGill B	10	10	10	30
McMaster C	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
McGill C	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
Toronto H	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	0	0	10	10
UF D	Melbourne A	0	0	10	10
FSU	ERAU A	0	0	0	0
UF A	FIU	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF E	0	10	10	20
USF	ERAU B	0	0	10	10
UF B	UCF A	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	MSU A	10	10	10	30
CWRU B	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
MSU B	CWRU C	0	0	10	10
Kenyon B	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
OSU D	OSU C	0	0	10	10
CWRU D	Pitt C	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	South Carolina A	10	0	10	20
Virginia B	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Roanoke	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	NC State	0	0	10	10
James Madison	Clemson A	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
South Carolina B	Tusculum	0	0	10	10
OSU B	OSU A	0	10	10	20
Catholic University	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	George Mason C	0	0	0	0
Georgetown B	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	VCU A	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Georgetown A	0	0	10	10
Penn A	NYU A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Maryland D	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins C	Penn B	0	0	10	10
UMBC A	Notre Dame E	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Lehigh B	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Princeton A	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Lehigh A	Rowan A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
William Woods	WashU C	0	0	10	10
Truman State	WashU D	0	0	10	10
UAB A	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Mississippi State A	10	10	10	30
Bruin A	Auburn B	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Huntsville B	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Sewanee A	Huntsville A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Alabama B	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Birmingham A	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	City St George's A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Durham A	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	10	0	10	20
Imperial C	Cambridge D	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Manchester A	10	0	10	20
Manchester B	Bristol B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20
Lancaster A	Sheffield C	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Bristol A	0	0	10	10
Cornell-DII	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Rochester	ESF	0	0	10	10
Syracuse	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	RIT A	0	0	10	10