Packet 1: Tossup 15

In a play by this author, a man makes a woman swear on his mother’s crucifix, then panics because she isn’t Catholic. In the Zone is one of four one-act (15[1])plays that this author set on the S.S. Glencairn. One of this author’s (15[1])characters (15[1])often adopts the pose of Rodin’s The Thinker (15[3])and (15[1])spends (15[1])a night in the Battery (15[3]-5[1])before a stage (15[1])instruction (15[1])about his death notes that he “at last belongs.” A film with the tagline (*) “Garbo talks!” adapts a play by this (10[1])author whose protagonist defies her (-5[1])estranged Swedish father (10[1])by (10[1])eloping with the shipwreck (10[1])survivor Matt Burke. In a play (10[1])by this author, (10[2]-5[1])the steel heiress Mildred Douglas exclaims “oh, (10[1])the filthy beast!” (10[1])upon seeing the coal (-5[1])stoker Yank, who is later crushed to death at the zoo by (10[1])a gorilla. For 10 points, name this playwright (-5[1])of (10[1])Anna Christie and The Hairy (10[1])Ape. ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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