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

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