Question
A ban on plays during this war was flouted by a performance of Joseph Addison’s play Cato. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this war whose stage depictions include most of the first act of the musical Hamilton.
ANSWER: American Revolution [accept American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or U.S. War of Independence]
[10m] During the Revolution, an elaborate theatrical production was performed at the Mischianza (“miss-kee-AN-za”) fête (“FET”) in this state, which is the setting of a ten-play cycle which includes the historical plays Gem of the Ocean and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
ANSWER: Pennsylvania [or PA] (The latter plays are from August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle.)
[10h] This author used Valley Forge as the setting of one of his plays. This author also wrote Both Your Houses and a verse drama drawing on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial titled Winterset.
ANSWER: Maxwell Anderson
<Joseph Krol, Literature - American - Drama> ~20489~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Chattahoochee A | Dunbar | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maggie Walker C | Lake Highland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |