Question
This author committed suicide after writing a play devoid of characters or stage directions which is thought to represent the experience of living with depression. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of 4.48 Psychosis. A play by this author set in a hotel room ends after a woman gives food and gin to a man who had just eaten a baby.
ANSWER: Sarah Kane (The second play is Blasted.)
[10m] This author commended Sarah Kane’s play Blasted and called it “rather a tender play.” This author of Cloud 9 included several fictional and historical women in the play Top Girls.
ANSWER: Caryl Churchill [or Caryl Lesley Churchill]
[10e] At Sarah Kane’s funeral, this close friend of Kane only said, “she was a poet.” This author became popular with The Caretaker, a play written after the commercial failures The Birthday Party and The Dumbwaiter.
ANSWER: Harold Pinter
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 6.67 | 56% | 11% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| South Carolina | Geodesic | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harding | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kentucky | Tennessee | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Alabama | Vanderbilt B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |