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A character in this play creates a Humphry Repton-influenced sketchbook whose pages are cut so that the “after” drawings can be superimposed over portions of the “before” drawings. (10[1])A student in this play uses a metaphor involving the noise made by an “out of whack” piano played by a tone-deaf, drunk pianist, which recalls an earlier scene in which a woman complains about the noise made by a piano player in the next room. A character in this play says that (-5[1])“the note in the margin was a joke to make you all mad” in reference to Fermat’s last theorem. (10[4])The non-speaking (10[1])character (10[1])Gus ends (10[1])this play (10[1])by handing a character (10[1])a drawing of the tortoise Plautus (10[7])and a resident (10[1])of Sidley Park. (10[1])In this play, Hannah Jarvis investigates a garden hermit in the present day and Thomasina Coverly is tutored by Septimus Hodge in 1809. For 10 points, name this 1993 play by Tom Stoppard. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Arcadia
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y20100%0%5%107.70

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathan SheffieldMIT AChicago C2710
Quynh PhungPurdue AColumbia B80-5
Roxanne TangOhio State ATexas A9910
Neal JoshiWUSTL BRutgers B9910
Ashish SubramanianDuke AMichigan A9910
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BMcGill A9910
Alex SchmidtPenn State AFlorida B10110
Sean DoyleHouston AVanderbilt A10210
Matt JacksonChicago AMinnesota A10410
David BassVirginia AJohns Hopkins A10610
Wenying WuToronto AIndiana A11010
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont ANorthwestern A11610
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AYale B11610
Amogh KulkarniChicago BIowa State A11610
Tracy MirkinFlorida ASouth Carolina A11610
Halle FriedmanNYU AGeorgia Tech B11610
Tim MorrisonStanford ACornell B11610
Mitch McCullarIllinois AGeorgia Tech A11610
Raymond WangCornell AImperial A11910
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AHarvard A12210
William GrogerColumbia BPurdue A15510