His characters – tramps, discarded people, poor people, people on the fringes – are connected with all the people we know of ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986.

The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...

"It is a very sad day for South Africa," said Western Cape Cultural Affairs and Sports MEC Ricardo Mackenzie after it was ...

Boesman and Lena are two mixed-race people who are outcasts ... It can be applied to a lot of great art, it bears witness to the times. Bearing witness to something with such depth and intensity that ...

The South African playwright, who died on March 8 at age 92, brought searing dramatic and moral force to his depictions of ...

Several of his plays were adapted into films, including ‘Boesman and Lena’, ‘Master Harold and the Boys’, ‘Tsotsi’ and ‘The Road to Mecca’. He performed the role of General Jan ...

Only art, unflinchingly committed to the truth ... His early dramas from the 1960s — “Blood Knot,” “Hello and Goodbye” and “Boesman and Lena” — evoke the existential concerns ...