Packet 5: Bonus 19

In this play, a senator and an alcoholic painter refer back to a copy of The Lost Princess of Oz given at a second-grade birthday party. For 10 points each:
[10h] What two-hander follows the 50-year relationship of Andy and Melissa? This A. R. Gurney play’s simple staging and optional memorization make it a popular choice for community theaters.
ANSWER: Love Letters
[10e] Two-handers adapted from the letters of people with this job, like Dear Liar and Dear Love, were a specialty of Jerome Kilty. A William Luce play about a person with this vocation popularized her epithet “Belle of Amherst.”
ANSWER: authors [accept writers, poets, or playwrights] (William Luce adapted the letters and diaries of Emily Dickinson into The Belle of Amherst.)
[10m] This playwright of Eurydice adapted the correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell into the two-hander Dear Elizabeth. Dr. Givings builds a Victorian vibrator in this author’s play In the Next Room.
ANSWER: Sarah Ruhl
<Editors, American Literature> | N. Playoffs 5 (Editors 5)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
620.00100%67%33%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago AIndiana0101020EM
HarvardUC Berkeley B010010E
Penn StateRutgers10101030HEM
Toronto AStanford A010010E
UC Berkeley ANYU A0101020EM
Virginia TechColumbia A10101030HEM

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓620.00100%67%33%