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For a play by an author from this country, Es Devlin designed a Tony-winning set shaped like a rotating glass box. In that play from this country, three actors play multiple generations of a family beginning with Henry, Emanuel, and Mayer. (10[1])Short monologues inspired by Biblical apocrypha, sometimes in grammelot, comprise a “comedic mystery play” from this country denounced (10[1])by the Vatican. The Lehman Trilogy is by an author from this country, as is a play in which a man with a fake pegleg pretends to be (10[1])a bishop, judge, and forensic expert while outwitting (10[1]-5[1])policemen. The Maniac gets the Superintendent (10[1])to reveal that he pushed a man out of a window in a play by an author from this country, Accidental Death of an Anarchist. For 10 points, name this home country of Stefano Massini and Dario Fo. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Italy [or Italia; or Italian Republic; or Repubblica Italiana] (The third sentence refers to Fo’s Mistero Buffo.)
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