Vietnam War - South Central

Question

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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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	11	19.09	91%	91%	9%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	38%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	15.83	92%	42%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

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Texas A	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Murray State A	10	0	10	20