When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...

While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation. Born in Middelburg, South Africa ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including ” ‘Master Harold’…and the Boys,” ”The Road to Mecca,” “Boesman and Lena,” ”A Lesson From Aloes,” died on Saturday.

In works like “Blood Knot,” “Master Harold” and “The Island,” he laid bare the realities of racial separatism in his homeland, South Africa. By Bruce Weber Bruce Weber is a former ...

Originally broadcast in 1986. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As a playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard defied South Africa's apartheid system, and the government punished him for it.

From colonial times to the present, playwrights have used the stage to reflect the realities of the Ghanaian people, addressing critical issues such as colonialism, tradition versus modernity ...

“Until maybe last year.” The question that brought such universal denials from four frequently produced, much-awarded American playwrights was: “Have you ever made enough to live on from ...

The festival — which was hosted by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies — featured an in-progress format that allowed the playwrights to give notes, tweak their scripts and ...

The competition is open until April 4 with the winning playwright receiving a £6,000 cash prize, a cruise for two, and the chance to have their work performed as part of the Theatre@Sea programme ...