David Rabe’s trilogy of plays about this war includes Sticks and Bones, which Christopher Durang parodied in a play set in suburban New Jersey. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this war that is the subject of plays like Terence McNally’s Botticelli and Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, as well as Tim O’Brien’s collection The Things They Carried.
ANSWER: Vietnam War [or Second Indochina War or Chiến tranh Việt Nam or Kháng Chiến Chống Mỹ] (Durang’s play is The Vietnamization of New Jersey.)
[10h] This playwright’s La Turista allegorizes the Vietnam War via two tourists who grow ill in Mexico. In a play by this author, an old man wears a baseball cap to stop his amputee son from shaving his head while he sleeps.
ANSWER: Sam Shepard [or Samuel Shepard Rogers III]
[10m] A playwright with this surname depicted the amputee Vietnam veteran Kenneth Talley Jr. in the play Fifth of July. Another playwright with this surname created a brain-damaged veteran who blows a trumpet at his brother’s funeral.
ANSWER: Wilson [accept Lanford Wilson or August Wilson] (The latter play is Fences.)
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