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American Plays Flashcards

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Emily Webb

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Our Town

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Stage Manager

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Our Town

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George Gibbs

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Our Town

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Simon Stimson

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Our Town

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Wally Webb

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Our Town

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Howie Newsome

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Our Town

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7
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Marries George

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Emily Webb

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Dies in childbirth

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Emily Webb

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9
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Relives her 12th birthday

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Emily Webb

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10
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High school baseball star

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George Gibbs

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Went to State Agricultural School

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George Gibbs

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12
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Takes over his Uncle Luke’s farm

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George Gibbs

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13
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Alcoholic choir director

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Simon Stimson

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14
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Hangs himself in his attic

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Simon Stimson

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15
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Emily’s brother

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Wally Webb

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16
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Dead soul, died of appendicitis on a Boy Scout trip

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Wally Webb

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17
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Milkman, has no horse or bottles, appears every morning

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Howie Newsom

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18
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Time capsule is placed in bank in Grover’s Corners

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Our Town

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19
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The time capsule from Our Town contains…

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The Sentinel newspaper and Constitution

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A letter to Jane Crofut from her minister has an address that includes “the universe” and “the mind of God”

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Our Town

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Professor Willard says townspeople are “English brachiocephalic blue-eyed stock”

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Our Town

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Choir sings “Blessed Be the Tie that Binds” in every act

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Our Town

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23
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George’s father Dr. Gibbs takes biannual vacations to Civil War battlefields

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Our Town

24
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Paperboy Joe is valedictorian of his MIT class and dies in WWI

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Our Town

25
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Emily says she can’t study because the moonlight is “terrible” but later says it is “wonderful”

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Our Town

26
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Our Town

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Thornton Wilder

27
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Wally and Mrs. Soames can be heard among the last act’s dead souls

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Our Town

28
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In a loveless, childless marriage with Brick

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Maggie Pollitt

29
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An alcoholic favorite son of Big Daddy

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Brick Pollitt

30
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Considered as “only son” by Big Mama

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Brick Pollitt

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Patriarch with terminal cancer

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Big Daddy

32
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Falsely diagnosed by Oschner Clinic with “spastic colon”

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Big Daddy

33
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Has sister named Sally

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Big Daddy

34
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Favorite word is “crap”

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Big Daddy

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Big Daddy’s other son

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Gooper Pollitt

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A successful corporate lawyer, scheming for estate

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Gooper Pollitt

37
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Married to Gooper with five children and another on the way

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Mae Pollitt

38
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Dead at start of play

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Skipper

39
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Brick’s best friend (relationship so clean that “death was the only icebox where you could keep it”)

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Skipper

40
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Implied homosexual

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Skipper

41
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Maggie Pollitt

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Brick Politt

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

43
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Big Daddy

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

44
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Gooper Pollitt

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Mae Pollitt

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

46
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Skipper

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

47
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Tennessee Williams

48
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Brick sprains his ankle jumping hurdles

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

49
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Big Mama says she loves Big Daddy, he replies “Wouldn’t it be nice if that were true?”

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

50
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Brick is disgusted with the world’s “mendacity,” drinks until he hears a “click”

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

51
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Big Daddy went to Europe, calls it a “great big auction”

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

52
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Big Daddy tells a joke about a family seeing aroused elephants at a zoo

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

53
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Kids throw hot biscuits and interrupt arguments with guns and sparklers

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

54
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Big Daddy claims to have been to “death’s country” and takes morphine

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

55
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?

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Albee

56
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A Delicate Balence

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Albee

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