W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn't hold in the case of playwright Athol ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Some of Fugard's best known work included Blood knot (1961), The Island (1973), ...
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. He was 92. While a ...
In the annals of South Africa's tumultuous history, few figures stand as tall as Athol Fugard—a playwright whose work transcended the segregated society of apartheid and contributed to the legacy of ...
Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ...