Athol Fugard’s Plays Illustrated the Value of Every Human Life
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the ...
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.
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Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92
When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...
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Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation. Born in Middelburg, South Africa ...
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Athol Fugard: The Playwright who challenged apartheid through art
As tributes pour in for Athol Fugard, the esteemed South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who passed away on Sunday at the age of 92, his significant contributions to the arts in ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Spoke to Worldwide Audiences, Dies at 92
Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including ” ‘Master Harold’…and the Boys,” ”The Road to Mecca,” “Boesman and Lena,” ”A Lesson From Aloes,” died on Saturday.