A play by this author opens with a man in an Italian suit jacket and dress shirt, but no pants, posing for a painting by his wife modeled on Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja (“puh-RAY-huh”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this playwright of Disgraced, in which Amir says that he felt “just a little bit of pride” on 9/11 while he and his wife Emily host another couple for dinner.
ANSWER: Ayad Akhtar
[10h] In this play, Gabe and Karen cook a meal for a couple whom they had set up 12 years prior, only for Beth to come alone and reveal that she and Tom are divorcing. Donald Margulies won a Pulitzer Prize for this play in 2000.
ANSWER: Dinner with Friends
[10e] In this 1962 two-couple play, George pretends that his imaginary son died in a car crash while he and Martha host Nick and Honey for drinks.
ANSWER: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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