SOURCE: An interview in The New Yorker, Vol. XLVII, No. 19, 26 June 1971, pp. 30-1.
In the following conversation, conducted at the time of the New York production of Dream on Monkey Mountain, Walcott elucidates the play's themes and discusses the person who inspired the character Makak.
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