Packet 7: Tossup 9

In a play set in this city, the lights go out before five women recite an “Ode to Bingo” to the audience. A playwright based in this city (15[1])wrote of boxer (15[1])and mathematician siblings whose mother requests in her will to be buried face down without a coffin. (15[1])In a landmark 1965 play set in this city, (15[1])15 women (15[1])paste a million stamps that were won in a sweepstakes. Wajdi Mouawad (-5[1])lives in this city, the setting of a play whose title translates to The Sisters-in-Law. (15[1])A (15[1])2010 film adapts a play in which (*) twins from this city search for their father in a Lebanon-like (10[1]-5[1])country, (10[1])titled Incendies (10[1])(“ahn-sawn-DEE”). A narrator (-5[2])from this (10[1])city liaises with “F” and obsesses over an Indigenous saint in the amphetamine-fueled novel Beautiful Losers. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the songwriter of “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah,” (10[2])Leonard (10[1]-5[1])Cohen, (10[3]-5[2])was born (10[2])in (-5[1])what (10[4])Canadian (10[1]-5[1])city? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[17])

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