Discover four exciting South African plays at The Masque’s One-Act Play Festival
Join us for a theatrical journey as four captivating South African plays, including the first Afrikaans entry, take centre ...
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Athol Fugard: the great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human
Fugard was born in a town called Middelburg in 1932 in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo area ... Unlike mainstream commercial theatre, Fugard’s plays continued to be intended for small-scale, rough ...
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South Africa's taboo-breaking playwright Athol Fugard
South African writer and theatre director Athol Fugard was acclaimed at home and abroad for plays that exposed the injustices of the apartheid system and challenged its racist taboos, including by ...
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 Blood Knot" and "’Master Harold’... and the Boys" to show how the racist ...
The New York Times23d
Athol Fugard’s Plays Illustrated the Value of Every Human Life
Fugard moved back to South Africa soon after the Fugard Theater opened, first living in New Bethesda, where “The Road to Mecca,” about the outsider artist Helen Martins, was set; later he and ...
BroadwayWorld4d
Review: BLACK COFFEE at Theatre On The Bay
Agatha Christie is always entertaining with her great plot twists and delightfully strange characters. Pieter Toerien's ...
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Winners Revealed For the 60th Fleur Du Cap Theatre Awards
The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, often referred to as the ‘Oscars' of Cape Town's theatre industry, celebrated their 60th ...
Los Angeles Times23d
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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Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92
London theater critic Matt Wolf says Fugard wrote ... The play was banned in South Africa but was a hit around the world and filmed several times. It is a play "about a breakdown of communication ...