Packet 9: Tossup 8

While rehearsing a Christmas production of this play, Stella compulsively calls a “speaking clock” hotline to hear her mother’s voice in a Beryl Bainbridge novel. Daphne du Maurier’s father Gerald premiered a dual role as a father and an antagonist in this play, opposite (10[1])Dion Boucicault’s (“BOO-sih-koh’s”) daughter Nina. In the Mischief Theatre’s first spinoff of The Play That Goes Wrong, this is the play that “goes wrong.” (10[1])A character in this play speculates that dying will be an “awfully big adventure.” (10[2]-5[1])This play (10[2])was based on stories told to the Llewelyn (10[1])Davies family in Kensington (10[1])Gardens. (10[2])In a nursery (10[1])guarded by the Newfoundland dog (10[1])Nana, (10[1])the title character of this play (10[1])announces (10[1])his address as “second to the (10[1])right (10[1])and straight on till morning.” (10[1])For 10 points, audiences are asked (10[1])to clap to save a dying fairy in what J. M. Barrie play (10[1])set (10[1])in Neverland? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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