In a scene set in one of these places, a character mentions outsourcing at Clemmons Technologies due to NAFTA, which Tracey thinks is a laxative. Later in that play, the owner of one of these places, Stan, is disabled when Jason hits him with a baseball bat. In another play set in one of these places, a character admits that he’d face the electric chair if he had to “kill someone and they have to go on living!” In one of these places owned by an agoraphobe who vows to walk around the block on his birthday, a traveling salesman admits to murdering his wife Evelyn. Don Parritt commits suicide by jumping off a fire escape in one of these places after Hickey attempts to convince its patrons to abandon their “pipe dreams.” For 10 points, name these places, one of which is run by Harry Hope in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh. ■END■
ANSWER: bars [or saloons; or public houses; accept Harry Hope’s Saloon; accept Alibi Club; prompt on restaurant; prompt on club; prompt on hotel] (The first and second lines refer to Sweat by Lynn Nottage.)
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