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London opening for playwright’s study on torture: The Royal Court has had a long and fruitful creative association with this country going back more than 40 years, when a mixed company from SA made history by performing several of Athol Fugard’s works there. Dodgson says the Royal Court Theatre has …
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PE Opera House given world class revamp: The Opera House in Port Elizabeth (PE), fondly known as the Old Lady, has had a face lift of note. It is now a world class theatre and the oldest Opera House in the southern hemisphere, as well as being the only operational one on the African continent.
Athol Fugard – Read more on South African Broadcasting Corporation

 

Competition: Win tickets to see My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard: South Africa, 1984 – the fourth decade of apartheid. Two opposing forces struggle for the soul of Thami, a young, brilliant black man. His teacher insists that education, even the inferior “Bantu” education he is forced to teach, is the way to …
Athol Fugard – Read more on The Stage

 

Athol Fugard’s Gorgeous ‘Painted Rocks’ Demands Attention – Review: No voice in today’s theater cries out with such compelling pathos and beauty as that of Athol Fugard, a painter of stage stories that, even after more than five decades, continues to throb with life, urgency and insistence. The Painted Rocks At …
Athol Fugard – Read more on Deadline

 

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