Question
In the prologue to an adaptation of this play, the author BJJ is taunted by the Playwright while attempting to stage this play. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play that focuses on the residents of Terrebonne. A 2014 play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins reworks this Dion Boucicault (“boo-see-COH”) melodrama.
ANSWER: The Octoroon
[10m] In its day, The Octoroon was surpassed in popularity only by plays depicting this character, known as his namesake “shows.” Anti-[this character] literature includes William Gilmore Simms’s The Sword and the Distaff.
ANSWER: Uncle Tom
[10e] Zoe, the title character of Jacobs-Jenkins’s play, is one of these people. These people’s narratives inspired much of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
ANSWER: slaves [or enslaved people; accept slave narratives]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 22% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 22% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 10.00 | 88% | 13% | 0% |
Data
| Bard A | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Haverford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn A | Penn B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers C | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |