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Two decades of brilliance: The Naledi Theatre Awards celebrate excellence in South African theatre
Twenty years ago, the dream of honouring South African theatre excellence took centre stage. Today, as the 20th Annual Naledi ...
Athol Fugard: Tribute paid to the South African playwright’s impact beyond theatre
The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...
A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women’s long wait for absent men
A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South ...
How Athol Fugard made political theater so riveting
Athol Fugard’s plays show the ways apartheid shaped the lives of South Africans, while they also reveal universal truths.
South Africa’s giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The ...
Variety7d
Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Spoke to Worldwide Audiences, Dies at 92
he hitchhiked through Africa for six months and did two years as a seaman in the Far East. He always knew he would be a ...
Los Angeles Times7d
Athol Fugard, South African theater artist whose works confronted apartheid, dies at 92
Fugard told an interviewer that the best theater in Africa would come from South Africa because the “daily tally of injustice and brutality has forced a maturity of thinking and feeling and an ...
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Germiston has the first digital storytelling theatre in South Africa
The smart theatre programme will serve as an advanced training hub for performers, writers, directors and technicians.
Remembering Athol Fugard: A tribute to South Africa's literary giant
RISE Mzansi mourns the passing of legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard at age 92. Renowned for his fearless ...
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Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
Fugard, who died Saturday at age 92, was part of a resistance movement in South Africa that found its voice in the theater. The stage became one of the few places where the flames of dissent ...
South African anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard dies aged 92
The writer exposed the realities of apartheid in plays such as “The Blood Knot” and "’Master Harold’...and the Boys”, and ...
The New York Times9d
Athol Fugard, 92, Playwright Who Exposed Torments of Apartheid, Dies
By Bruce Weber Bruce Weber is a former theater critic and obituary writer for The Times. Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose portrayals of intimate relationships burdened by ...