'elegant reissue' -Plays International, Summer 2000'They are the wonderfully moving and amusing 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead',... 'The Coat' (previously unavailable), the urgently profound 'The Island'... Anyone interested in freedom or drama should buy this book.' Day by Day
Athol Fugard Knihy
11. červen 1932
Athol Fugard, jihoafrický dramatik, je známý svými hluboce působivými hrami, které se často zabývají tématy nespravedlnosti a útlaku. Jeho tvorba, silně ovlivněná jeho zkušenostmi s apartheidem, vyniká svým syrovým realismem a emocionální silou. Fugardův styl se vyznačuje pronikavým vhledem do lidské psychiky a nekompromisním zkoumáním morálních dilemat. Často spolupracoval s herci, aby jeho díla odrážela skutečné životy a hlasy utlačovaných.
Master Harold and the Boys
- 73 stránek
- 3 hodiny čtení
Drama / 3m (1 white, 2 black) / Int. The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout Theatre's revival of this searing coming of age story, considered by many to be Fugard's masterpiece. A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two black waiters who work in his mother's tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist alcoholic father is on his way home from the hospital. An ensuing rage unwitting
Port Elizabeth Plays
- 286 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
The four plays in this volume focus on the people and the place Fugard knows most intimately - Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Each explores a tense family situation or relationship against the background of wider suffering and tensions, engaging our sympathies for South Africans of all races. schovat popis
Set amid the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto, where survival is the primary objective, this novel traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader who begins to rediscover his own humanity, dignity, and capacity to love.
Belletristik : Südafrika (Republik) ; Theaterstücke.