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Harry Wade works at one of these locations, where he insults the number-one man in the title profession, in Martin McDonagh’s play Hangmen. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these locations where characters watch the protagonist win a mule race from the window in another play. Pegeen, who works at one of these locations, spurns the protagonist in a play set at one of these locations.
ANSWER: pubs [or taverns or bars]
[10m] McDonagh set a trilogy of plays at the Aran Islands, where this author set his play Riders to the Sea. This author used a pub as the setting for his play The Playboy of the Western World.
ANSWER: John Millington Synge (“sing”)
[10e] McDonagh used Synge’s plot element of the return of the murder victim for his play A Skull in Connemara, which takes its title from Lucky’s monologue in this absurdist play by Samuel Beckett.
ANSWER: Waiting for Godot [or En Attendant Godot]
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BirminghamSouthampton B001010
ManchesterBristol A001010
Cambridge AOxford A0101020
Imperial BCambridge D001010
Imperial ALSE A0101020
Durham BLSE B001010
Oxford BSouthampton A0101020
Bristol BVanderbilt0000
EdinburghWarwick B0101020
Cambridge BCambridge C001010
Durham AWarwick A1001020