Question
A director of this country’s national theatre was put into a trunk by the state after his satirical opera Song of the Cock premiered at FESTAC ’77. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country. A minister falls into poverty in The Burdens, a play put on by the “Free Travelling Theatre” of a university in this country where the playwright of When the Hunchback Made Rain met a scholar who coined the term “orature.”
ANSWER: Uganda [or Republic of Uganda] (The first author is Byron Kawadwa. The playwright and scholar are Elvania Namukwaya and Pio Zirimu.)
[10m] The Makerere (“muh-KAIR-uh-ree”) Free Travelling Theatre was led by a playwright with this first name. A member of the Serpent Players with this first name starred with Winston Ntshona (“un-CHO-nah”) in The Island.
ANSWER: John [accept John Ruganda or John Kani; accept Bonisile Kani]
[10e] John Ruganda translated a play by this author into Swahili for the Nairobi University Players. Rose Mbowa’s Mother Uganda and Her Children alters the title of one of this author’s plays.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht (“breckt”) [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht] (Ruganda translated The Good Woman of Setzuan.)
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Toronto C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Georgia State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| British Columbia | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Waterloo A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |