Question
This author complains that “I got so sick of hearing people say, ‘I loved your play!’ that I could not say thank you any more” in an essay about feeling estranged from his friends. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the essay “The Catastrophe of Success.” That essay was published days before the opening of this author’s play about Blanche DuBois moving to New Orleans, A Streetcar Named Desire.
ANSWER: Tennessee Williams [or Thomas Lanier Williams, III]
[10m] “The Catastrophe of Success” describes being “snatched out of virtual oblivion” by this play. In this “memory play,” Laura Wingfield’s “gentleman caller” breaks her unicorn figurine.
ANSWER: The Glass Menagerie
[10h] In “The Catastrophe of Success,” Williams mentions accidentally pouring chocolate sauce over a steak in one of these locations. In another play by Williams, Reverend Shannon visits one of these locations run by Maxine.
ANSWER: hotels [or motels] (The play is The Night of the Iguana.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 78% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 83% | 83% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 20.00 | 83% | 92% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 78% | 89% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 100% | 11% |