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In a play by this author, a seven-year-old girl dressed as Cleopatra swallows a whole bottle of vitamin C tablets. In another play by this author, the protagonist successfully delivers a string of memorized correct answers to questions from a Trivial Pursuit game, (10[1])whose cards were used by characters (-5[1])to (-5[1])do lines of coke. That play by this author ends with the protagonist madly pounding on a drum that he claims was given to him by the giant who built Stonehenge. (10[1])In a play by this author, Tom Kettle recaptures a goose that escapes on harvest day, as Caitlin Carney learns that the corpse (-5[1])of her missing husband (-5[1])has been found in a bog. (-5[1])Mark Rylance won a Tony award (10[1])for playing “Rooster” Byron in a play by this author titled for (10[1])a William Blake hymn. (10[1])For (-5[1])10 points, name this contemporary British playwright of The Ferryman and Jerusalem. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[21])

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