Packet 2: Tossup 6

A rejection note inspired the title of a play staged at this city’s Gate Theatre that coined its label “strumpet city in the (10[1])sunset.” In a play set in this city, a Percy Shelley fan argues with his roommate by moonlight after a newsboy reports the death of a man who supposedly went to “catch butterflies.” Plays set in this city’s (10[1])slums, like The Old Lady Says No! and 1917’s (-5[1])Blight, surpassed the “peasant plays” of a so-called literary “twilight.” Two men sing “Keep the Home Fires Burning” to end a play set in this city whose audience was told “you have disgraced yourselves again.” (10[2])In a play set (10[1])in this city’s (10[1])tenements, (10[1])Minnie hides a satchel full of bombs (10[2]-5[1])to save (10[1])a poet whom she (10[1])thinks is a militant (10[1])in hiding. (10[1])For 10 points, The Shadow of a Gunman (10[1])and (10[1])The Plough (10[1])and the (10[1])Stars are (10[1])entries in a trilogy (10[1])set in what city by Sean O’Casey? ■END■ (10[2])

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