Question
Answer the following about Black playwrights whose works are primarily set in their hometowns, for 10 points each.
[10e] A cycle of ten plays that includes Fences is mostly set in this native city of August Wilson.
ANSWER: Pittsburgh [accept Pittsburgh Cycle]
[10m] A playwright with this last name and the first name Theodore set his play Big White Fog in his adopted home city of Chicago. A novelist with this surname fictionalized her Gulf Coast hometown as Bois Sauvage, Mississippi.
ANSWER: Ward [accept Theodore Ward; accept Jesmyn Ward]
[10h] This playwright used her native Memphis as the setting of both The Hot Wing King, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and a play set during the last day of the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
ANSWER: Katori Hall (The latter play is The Mountaintop.)
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