Twenty years ago, the dream of honouring South African theatre excellence took centre stage. Today, as the 20th Annual Naledi ...
The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...
A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South ...
Athol Fugard’s plays show the ways apartheid shaped the lives of South Africans, while they also reveal universal truths.
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The ...
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 ...
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 ...
The smart theatre programme will serve as an advanced training hub for performers, writers, directors and technicians.
RISE Mzansi mourns the passing of legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard at age 92. Renowned for his fearless ...
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 ...
The writer exposed the realities of apartheid in plays such as “The Blood Knot” and "’Master Harold’...and the Boys”, and ...
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 ...