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American Plays
YGK These American Plays
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The 1938 Thornton Wilder play set in the village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire | Our Town |
| The three acts of Our Town | Daily Life, Love and Marriage, and Death |
| The narrator of Our Town who speaks directly to the audience on a bare stage | The Stage Manager |
| The autobiographical Eugene O’Neill play about the dysfunctional Tyrone family | Long Day’s Journey Into Night |
| The Edward Albee play in which George and Martha bicker with guests Nick and Honey | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| The Tennessee Williams play featuring the conflict between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| The New Orleans apartment resident and wife of Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski |
| The first play by an African-American woman to be performed on Broadway | A Raisin in the Sun |
| The Arthur Miller play that uses the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism | The Crucible |
| The protagonist of The Crucible who is killed after refusing to turn in others for witchcraft | John Proctor |
| The Arthur Miller play about failed salesman Willy Loman and his sons Biff and Happy | Death of a Salesman |
| The Eugene O’Neill trilogy based on Aeschylus’s The Oresteia and set in post-Civil War New England | Mourning Becomes Electra |
| The Williams "memory play" narrated by Tom Wingfield featuring his sister Laura and her collection of glass animals | The Glass Menagerie |
| The "gentleman caller" in The Glass Menagerie who accidentally breaks Laura’s glass unicorn | Jim O’Connor |
| The Eugene O’Neill play set in the End of the Line Café featuring the arrival of Theodore “Hickey” Hickman | The Iceman Cometh |
| The Tennessee Williams play centered on "Big Daddy" Pollitt’s estate and his son Brick’s alcoholism | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| The Lillian Hellman play about the scheming Hubbard siblings on a Southern plantation | The Little Foxes |
| The Biblical book that provided the title for Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes | Song of Solomon |