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Call for Performing Arts Scholarships Registration: The theatre is renowned world-wide for brilliant anti-apartheid productions as well as the premieres of many of Athol Fugard’s award-winning dramas. The Market Theatre’s history is intertwined with the cultural, social and political struggle for …
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Making art in the time of occupation: Written by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, the play is about the friendship between two prison inmates. One is to be released soon, and the other is serving a life sentence. They spend their nights rehearsing to perform Sophocles’ Antigone .
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Tickets Now On Sale for World Premiere of Athol Fugard’s The Painted Rocks at …: Tickets are now available for the world premiere of Athol Fugard’s The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek off-Broadway. The production will play a limited engagement April 21 through June 7. Opening night is set for May 11 at the Romulas Linney Courtyard …
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At Juilliard’s 107th commencement ceremony on May 25, 2012, playwright Athol Fugard received an honorary degree and gave the commencement speech.

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Tsotsi Time!


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For today’s Daily Bookshot, it’s a timely snap of the next title I’m tackling in my never-decreasing reading pile – Athol Fugard’s Tsotsi (Canongate). I’ll say more about it in my ‘forethoughts’ post, but for now here’s the cover blurb:

Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood, to rediscover himself and a capacity for love.

Sound good? I thought so too. Look out for my ‘forethoughts’ post, coming as soon as I can get to it.

Canongate | February 2009 (UK) | £7.99 | PAPERBACK | 256 PP | ISBN 9781847673312

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