When discovering that his daughter is starting at Northwestern, a UChicago professor in this play asks “You’d actually want to live in Evanston?” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play about a mentally ill mathematics professor and his daughter Catherine, who claims to have written an important mathematical discovery in one of her father’s notebooks.
ANSWER: Proof (by David Auburn)
[10h] The spirit of Jane Jacobs calls Evanston a “bland town” in this author’s play Evanston Salt Costs Climbing. Young conservatives reuniting at a Wyoming Catholic college are the subject of this playwright’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning.
ANSWER: Will Arbery
[10e] In Gloria Bond Clunie’s reimagining of this play, the Freemans reject the idea of moving to Evanston because they could not “make a real difference” there. Clybourne Park updates this play about the Younger family’s move to an all-white suburb.
ANSWER: A Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry)
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