Question

In a play by this author, an apparent king rejects offers of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Stalin Peace Prize, and a “floral tribute of lilies” from the KKK announced by a cabinet maker who dons a top hat and white gloves. This author had Errol Jones don masks of an Old Man and a Planter during a production put on by a “Theatre Workshop” co-founded by him and his twin brother Roderick. (10[1])In a (10[1])play by this (10[1])author, a man burns a plantation and castrates a goat to win a challenge posed by the aborted fetus Bolom (10[2])after the Devil eats his brothers. An (10[1])epigraph from Sartre’s prologue to The Wretched of the Earth opens a play by this author in which a white goddess urges (10[1])a (10[1])charcoal-burner (10[1])to return (10[1])to Africa, (10[4])leading him to stab (10[1])Corporal Lestrade. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, what playwright created Makak in Dream on Monkey (10[1])Mountain (10[2])and wrote the epic poem Omeros? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Derek Walcott [or Derek Alton Walcott] (The second sentence describes the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. The play in the second and third sentence is Ti-Jean and His Brothers.)
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y22100%0%0%123.55

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Bryce CruiseTexasColumbia B13810
Andrew ZengStanfordOhio State13810
Moses KitakuleColumbia AMichigan14010
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Alvin GuoChicago BRutgers15010
Adrian WongOttawaMaryland15710