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Fugard, Athol (Harold Lannigan) - English
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South African dramatist, director, and actor. He has written more than 20 plays, many of which deal with the effects of apartheid. Among his most explicitly political plays are a trilogy published as Statements: Three Plays in 1974. Other plays include Boesman and Lena (1969; filmed in 1974), the autobiographical Master Harold... and the Boys (1982), and My Children! My Africa! (1989).

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Literary Encyclopedia: Fugard, Athol - English
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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. While Fugard has written works set in other locales than South Africa, his evocation of the Karroo region of the Eastern Cape is inimitably his landscape. In a language that reaches the poetic, Fugard has charted the lives of the region’s dispossessed. His work has a universal application to audiences that arises from its precise grounding in the South Africa of the latter part of the twentieth century. His post-apartheid works have less power and evenness in their dramatic impact than those with a historic touchstone. In addition to some 20 dramatic works (including the stellar collaborations with John Kani and Winston Ntshona), Fugard has written a novel, Tsotsi, memoirs, and several film scripts (with Ross Devenish). Fugard directs and acts in his work, though the general reader is perhaps more aware of Fugard’s brief roles in the films Gandhi and The Killing Fields.

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Athol Fugard: "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys - English
URL: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/fugard.html

During most of the last four decades, Athol Fugard has dedicated his art to fighting apartheid, remarkably keeping together an all-black theater troupe in extremely difficult conditions and appearing in many of his own plays as often unsympathetic white characters. Many of his plays were banned in his homeland, and were premiered instead at the Yale Repertory Theatre. He is generally considered the finest South African playwright, and his works have been widely performed abroad. The brief 1973 play we will see on video, Sizwe Banzi is Dead was developed partly through improvisation with the other actor involved, deriving its content from the everyday lived experience of blacks in South Africa. It is part of a trilogy which includes The Island and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act. Since the collapse of apartheid, he has turned away from this subject toward more personal works.

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Fugard, Athol. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
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South African playwright, actor, and director. In 1965 he became director of the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth; in 1972 he was a founder of Cape Town’s Space Experimental Theatre. One of the first white playwrights to collaborate with black actors and workers, Fugard writes of the frustrations of life in contemporary South Africa and of overcoming the psychological barriers created by apartheid. Some of his works, such as Blood Knot (1960), the first in his family trilogy, were initially banned in South Africa.

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Fugard, Athol - English
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South African playwright, actor, and director. In 1965 he became director of the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth; in 1972 he was a founder of Cape Town's Space Experimental Theatre. One of the first white playwrights to collaborate with black actors and workers, Fugard writes of the frustrations of life in contemporary South Africa and of overcoming the psychological barriers created by apartheid. Some of his works, such as Blood Knot (1960), the first in his family trilogy, were initially banned in South Africa.

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Drama: Athol Fugard - English
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Athol Fugard Statements - English
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Athol Fugard Statements - the plays of the South African playwright. Reviews photos biography links

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