In a play by this author, a character remarks, “I hate brandy… it stinks of modern literature” while at an Italian restaurant. In that play by this author, that character reminisces about taking a speedboat to Torcello to read Yeats alone. At the end of a different play by this author, a character who had left to get a drink of water returns stripped of some of his clothing and his gun. A character in that play by this author yells “Kaw!” after reading about a “child of eight” killing a cat and a “man of eighty-seven” crawling under a lorry. Two characters in a play by this author argue about the difference between the phrases “light the kettle” and “put on the kettle” and send items like a stale Eccles (“ECK-ulls”) cake up the title device. For 10 points, what playwright of Betrayal wrote about the hitmen Gus and Ben in The Dumb Waiter? ■END■ (0[2])