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      • 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.
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  2. The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen.

  3. Plot. The Island. Jump to Edit. Summaries. In 2019, a mercenary pursues a man and woman who escaped a research facility after learning their true fate. Set in a dystopian future, a group of people work in a facility, essentially as slaves.

  4. Jul 22, 2005 · Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor, ER †) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the The Island—reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet.

  5. Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island"—reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet.

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  6. The novel is set on the island of Spinalonga, off the coast of Crete, and on the village of Plaka which lies within swimming distance across the bay from it. The Island tells the story of Alexis Fielding, a 25-year-old on the cusp of a life-changing decision.

  7. The Island Summary. Cellmates John and Winston are imprisoned on an island for fighting against South African apartheid. They spend their days undertaking back-breaking labor outside in the searing heat, and are generally mistreated by the guards, one of whom they refer to as " Hodoshe," a word for a carrion fly that feeds on decaying dead bodies.

  8. Set during South African apartheid, The Island is a play that Athol Fugard co-wrote with two writers and actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, both Black South Africans. The three men met when they were members of a drama group called the Serpent Players, a group started by Fugard.