Round 12: Tossup 20

In a play set in one of these places, a woman asks “Years from now… when you talk about this – and you will – be kind” (10[1])as she prepares to sleep with a character who had sunbathed nude. A woman’s fiancé unthinkingly says, “what you’ve done you’ve done” in a defunct one of these places in a play that lost a Pulitzer to the never-revived Zoë Akins drama The Old Maid. Deborah Kerr (10[1])reprised her role from a Robert Anderson play set in one of these places, (10[1])Tea and Sympathy. A former actress who is overheard calling her niece “unnatural” (10[1])in one of these places later returns by train, having declined to testify in a libel case. (10[2]-5[1])To get revenge on the proprietors of one of these places, Mary Tilford (10[3])lies to her grandmother (10[4]-5[1])that she (10[2])saw (10[1])them kiss. (10[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1]-5[1])Martha and Karen run what sort of institution in Lillian Hellman’s (10[1])play (10[1])The Children’s Hour? ■END■ (10[2])

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