Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...
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Athol Fugard: the great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human
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 ...
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OBITUARY: Athol Fugard dies at 92
The great South African playwright captured what it means to be human OBITUARY | DENNIS WALDER | I was shocked to learn that ...
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Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
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 ...
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Athol Fugard: The Playwright who challenged apartheid through art
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 ...
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Remembering South African playwright Athol Fugard
And The Boys" and "Boesman And Lena." He co-wrote the plays ... GROSS: What do you think is the power of theater or art in general to help topple the apartheid system? Do you think of art in ...
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Athol Fugard: The great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human
Boesman and Lena are two mixed-race people who ... 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 there ...
Remembering Athol Fugard, Whose Plays Exposed Apartheid’s Cruelty
Art is no substitute for life ... literature was also displayed in another of his most compelling plays, “Boesman and Lena,” ...