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Athol Fugard—playwright, director, and actor—is South Africa’s most widely produced dramatist abroad. His plays, though rooted in one nation, have earned international...
Athol Fugard has 130 books on Goodreads with 26481 ratings. Athol Fugard’s most popular book is Master Harold...and the boys.
Athol Fugard. , The Art of Theater No. 8. Interviewed by Lloyd Richards. Issue 111, Summer 1989. Athol Fugard was born in the small village of Middleburg in South Africa’s semi-desert region of Karroo in 1932. His mother was an Afrikaner and his father an English-speaking South African. When Fugard was three years old the family moved to Port ...
22 quotes from Athol Fugard: 'Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment.
Athol Fugard is more famous as a playwright than as a novelist—he has written dozens of plays but only one novel, Tsotsi. Like Tsotsi, many of Fugard’s plays criticize South African apartheid, a social system operating from the late 1940s to early 1990s that legally enforced racial segregation and discrimination against non-white South ...
Athol Fugard is widely considered South Africa’s greatest playwright, and his works are influential and popular throughout the world. He was born in 1932 to a bilingual family: his father was a native English speaker, and his mother spoke Afrikaans.
Jun 11, 2018 · Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard is a white South African playwright who has received the Order of Ikhamanga for his exemplary work in fighting apartheid.
Mar 2, 2003 · Athol Fugard is a dramatist of enormous power, particularly adept at full length plays with a small cast. A one time student of philosophy, Fugard’s works are marked by an experientially driven search for truth and an attendant celebration of humanity, no matter how circumscribed the individual’s material conditions.
Mar 27, 2014 · In 1961, South African playwright Athol Fugard put black and white actors on stage together in his breakout play Blood Knot. He's pictured above in the 1970s.
Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English. He is best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood.
