Question
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won an Obie Award for his 2014 adaptation of this author’s best known play. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Irish-born playwright who was extraordinarily popular in 19th-century America for hits like his play The Octoroon.
ANSWER: Dion Boucicault (“boo-sih-KOH”) [or Dionysius Lardner Boucicault]
[10m] Jacobs-Jenkins’s adaptation of Boucicault’s The Octoroon added the character Br’er Rabbit, a figure of oral tradition who became popular from this Georgia-born author’s Uncle Remus stories.
ANSWER: Joel Chandler Harris
[10e] Jacobs-Jenkins adapted 19th-century black minstrel shows in a play named for this type of person. In the poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost wrote that “good fences make good” examples of these people.
ANSWER: neighbors
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
Data
| Bristol | Cambridge C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Oxford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Edinburgh | Durham A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Imperial B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Sheffield | Oxford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |