William Butler Yeats - Lower Mid-Atlantic

Question

In his book Passionate Action, David Richman describes this author’s relationship with theatre as “a struggle for mastery against a set of conventions that he both adored and loathed.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this co-founder of the Abbey Theatre who also wrote “things fall apart; the center cannot hold” in “The Second Coming.”

ANSWER: William Butler Yeats

[10m] Yeats said “You have disgraced yourselves again” after riots broke out at the Abbey Theatre during this play. In this Sean O’Casey play, Nora goes mad after her husband is killed during the 1916 Easter Rising.

ANSWER: The Plough and the Stars

[10h] Five sisters sing a version of Yeats’s “Down by the Salley Gardens” in one play by this author. This author’s play Translations opens in a hedge school in the fictional town Baile Beag (“BOL-eh byug”).

ANSWER: Brian Friel (The first play mentioned is Dancing at Lughnasa.)

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	7.50	67%	0%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	5	4.00	40%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	11.43	86%	14%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	8.00	70%	10%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	12.00	60%	30%	30%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	4.00	40%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	7.50	67%	8%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


CWRU D	CWRU C	10	0	0	10
MSU A	OSU D	10	0	0	10
MSU B	Pitt C	10	0	10	20
OSU A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
OSU B	OSU C	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	Pitt A	10	0	0	10
Pitt B	Kenyon B	0	0	0	0