In a play by this author, the younger members of the Lafayette family discover a photo album of lynchings while going through their dead father’s belongings. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this playwright of Appropriate and Gloria. Naz returns home amid a slew of family scandals in a Pulitzer-winning play by this author in which his father Solomon is a thinly-veiled depiction of Jesse Jackson.
ANSWER: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (The latter play is Purpose.)
[10m] Jacobs-Jenkins adapted a Dion Boucicault melodrama set at one of these locations, where couples role-play in a Jeremy O. Harris play. In another play, Oscar Hubbard inherits one of these places when he marries Birdie.
ANSWER: plantations [prompt on estates; prompt on houses or homes] (Harris’s play is Slave Play, and the latter play is The Little Foxes.)
[10e] Jacobs-Jenkins has stated that the Jasper family matriarch in his play Purpose exists in dialogue with Lena Younger from this Lorraine Hansberry play.
ANSWER: A Raisin in the Sun
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