Possible Clues:

• Writer of plays
• The doctor will make a play of getting at this in a a fog
• A writer of plays
• Coward perhaps needing drink at first
• Site of Elysian Fields (though subject to severe flooding)
• His work is his play
• Supplier for deliveries of ham?
• Mad artist battered playwright
• Scriptwriter having tipple with performer right away
• Playmaker?