A trilogy of plays by this author meant to represent the stages of life opens with one in which a woman and a visitor fiddle with a locked suitcase played by a male actor. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of Suitcase. Niki Junpei becomes trapped with a widow who endlessly shovels sand in this author’s novel Woman in the Dunes.
ANSWER: Kōbō Abe (“AH-beh”) [or Kimifusa Abe]
[10h] The second play in the trilogy, The Cliff of Time, is structured to follow a match of this sport. The aspiring violinist Joe Bonaparte becomes an athlete in this sport in a play by Clifford Odets.
ANSWER: boxing [or boxers; prompt on fighting]
[10e] The last play in the trilogy, The Man Who Turned into a Stick, includes a man and woman from this place. Garcin concludes that this place “is other people” at the end of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit.
ANSWER: hell [accept the underworld; accept the afterlife; accept “Hell is other people”; accept Man from Hell or Woman from Hell]
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