Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard was a South African dramatist, actor, director and playwright, known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during Apartheid. Fugard was a fearless storyteller with over 30 plays to his name throughout his 70-year career. His celebrated works include Boesman and Lena, Tsotsi and The Blood Knot. We remember Athol Fugard for his sharp wit and deep understanding of South Africa. Shop Athol Fugard:
Road to Mecca
A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow.The play won the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.
R 98.00
My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays
In his introduction to this collection, Stephen Gray states that `there can be no artistic grounds on which to uphold a belief that “short” implies “lesser”’; he goes on to make the point that `Fugard seems naturally to be most at ease when working in compact dense forms’. This collection brings together all the available shorter plays by Athol Fugard not accessible to readers and performers, and demonstrates through these plays the crucial stages of Fugard’s development as a great man of the theatre.
R 187.00
My Life and Valley Song
My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994. The perspective of each young woman on her country and her people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, exuberance, warmth and humour. A small Karoo town provides the setting for Valley Song, which explores the theme of youth in search of itself, and provides a lyrical metaphor for the new South Africa in which it was set, and has been termed one of Fugard's most endearing plays.
R 180.00
Tsotsi
First published in 1980, this is pre-eminent playwright Athol Fugard’s only novel. Tsotsi is a powerful and turbulent story set in the 1950s about Tsotsi, a Sophiatown gangster, who stalks the streets leaving pain and terror in his wake. Derelict and deprived, he treats life as it has always treated him, until a chance encounter brings about a strange redemption. Tsotsi traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader. When we meet Tsotsi, he is a man without a name who has repressed his past and now exists only to stage and execute vicious crimes. When he inadvertently kidnaps a baby, Tsotsi is confronted with memories of his own painful childhood, and this angry young man begins to rediscover his own humanity, dignity, and capacity to love. Athol Fugard is renowned for his relentless explorations of personal and political survival in apartheid South Africa — which include his now classic plays Master Harold and the Boys and The Blood Knot.
R 275.00
