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Athol Fugard OIS HonFRSL (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. [1] He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid.
Athol Fugard, South African dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the apartheid period. Learn more about Fugard’s life and career, including his notable plays.
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South Africa’s most acclaimed playwright. Athol Fugard was born in 1932 in Middelburg in the Karoo. An internationally acclaimed playwright, director and occasional actor. For over half a century he has written almost forty soul-searing plays with roles for all South Africans which have moved audiences in South Africa and around the world to ...
Jul 16, 2021 · His plays Coming Home (2008) and Have You Seen Us (2009) both premiered at the Long Wharf. More recent plays, The Train Driver (2010) and The Bird Watchers (2011), premiered at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, a multi-space performance venue named for the country’s greatest playwright.
Athol Fugard is a South African director, actor, and writer of more than thirty plays. He is best known for creating works confronting the racial segregation of apartheid, and today continues to pen insightful plays addressing modern inequality.
"Master Harold"...and the boys is a play by Athol Fugard. Set in 1950, it was first produced at the Yale Repertory Theatre in March 1982 and made its premiere on Broadway on 4 May at the Lyceum Theatre, where it ran for 344 performances.
The Island is a play written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. The apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story, is set in an unnamed prison clearly based on South Africa's notorious Robben Island prison, where Nelson Mandela was held for twenty-seven years.
