Athol Fugard: Death of a great South African playwright
Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an ...
Athol Fugard: the great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human
His characters – tramps, discarded people, poor people, people on the fringes – are connected with all the people we know of ...
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Ira Aldridge - the first black Shakespearean actor
He was later referred to as the African Roscius, after the famous Roman actor of the first century BC. He left his native New York for England and played Othello at Covent Garden, but wasn’t ...
Athol Fugard, South African theater artist whose works confronted apartheid, dies at 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as 'The ...