Question
In a play by this author, the 16-year-old Lauren and the divorced carpenter Schultz attend a summer acting class set at a “windowless dance studio” at the community center. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author whose plays Circle Mirror Transformation, Body Awareness, and Nocturama are all set in the fictional small town of Shirley, Vermont. Her play The Flick won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014.
ANSWER: Annie Baker
[10m] At the end of Baker’s Shirley, Vermont, play The Aliens, Evan sings “If I Had a Hammer” after KJ gives him one of these objects. Hedley uses a machete to kill Floyd Barton in a play titled for these objects.
ANSWER: guitars [accept Seven Guitars; prompt on musical instruments]
[10e] Like Baker, August Wilson set many of his plays in the same place; this city titles his cycle of ten plays, including Seven Guitars and Fences.
ANSWER: Pittsburgh [accept Pittsburgh Cycle]
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| Chicago A | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | McGill | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Brown | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia A | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland | Stanford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Truman State | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Duke | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |