Question
Ex-convicts who work at one of these places share their dreams and aspirations in a 2021 Lynn Nottage comedy that American Theater magazine deemed the most-staged play of 2022. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of location where Eliot Ortiz works in Philadelphia. In another play, a man rants about the “supercilious” nature of people with the surname Patel during a conversation in one of these places.
ANSWER: restaurant [accept sandwich shop or diner; accept Chinese restaurant] (The last play is Glengarry Glen Ross.)
[10h] The Iraq War veteran Elliot Ortiz works in a sandwich shop in a trilogy of plays by this author. This playwright won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the second play in the Elliot trilogy, Water by the Spoonful.
ANSWER: Quiara Alegría Hudes
[10e] Water by the Spoonful ends with Elliot deciding to pursue his acting dreams in this city, which provides the setting of Nathanael West’s novel The Day of the Locust.
ANSWER: Los Angeles [or LA]
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