In this playwright’s play The Who and the What, Zarina publishes a controversial novel about Muhammad while developing a relationship with the convert Eli. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this playwright of Junk and Disgraced, as well as the novel American Dervish.
ANSWER: Ayad Akhtar
[10h] Akhtar studied theater at this director’s namesake Tuscan “Workcenter.” This director of the Laboratory Theater, or Theater of 13 Rows, first focused on “poor theater” before developing the “theater of sources.”
ANSWER: Jerzy Grotowski (“YEH-zhih grah-TOFF-skee”) [or Jerzy Marian Grotowski]
[10e] Akhtar appeared in a Louis Malle film about Grotowski’s associate André Gregory putting on this play “on 42nd Street.” This Chekhov play concerns the title character’s relationship with his niece Sonja.
ANSWER: Uncle Vanya [accept Vanya on 42nd Street]
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