Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard FRSL OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as “South Africa’s greatest playwright.”[1] He is best known for his political plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Oscar-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood.[2] Acclaimed as “the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world” by Time Magazine in 1985,[3] Fugard continues to write and has published over thirty plays. Fugard was an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.[4] He is the recipient of many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the 2005 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre" from the government of South Africa.[5] He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[6] He was honoured in Cape Town with the opening of the Fugard Theatre in District Six in 2010,[7] and received a Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 2011.[8]

Athol Fugard
BornHarold Athol Lannigan Fugard
(1932-06-11) 11 June 1932
Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa
OccupationPlaywright, novelist, actor, director, teacher
NationalitySouth African
CitizenshipSouth African
EducationUCT (dropped out)
Period1956–present
GenreDrama, novel, memoir
Notable works"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Blood Knot
SpouseSheila Meiring Fugard (m. 1956; div. 2015) Paula Fourie (m. 2016)
ChildrenLisa

Personal history

Fugard was born as Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard, in Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa, on 11 June 1932. His mother, Marrie (Potgieter), an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a lodging house; his father, Harold Fugard, was a disabled former jazz pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot descent.[2][9][10] In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth.[11] In 1938, he began attending primary school at Marist Brothers College.[12] After being awarded a scholarship, he enrolled at a local technical college for secondary education and then studied Philosophy and Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town,[13] but he dropped out of the university in 1953, a few months before final examinations.[2] He left home, hitchhiked to North Africa with a friend, and then spent the next two years working in east Asia on a steamer ship, the SS Graigaur,[2] where he began writing, an experience "celebrated" in his 1999 autobiographical play The Captain's Tiger: a memoir for the stage.[14]

In September 1956, he married Sheila Meiring, a University of Cape Town Drama School student whom he had met the previous year.[2][15] Now known as Sheila Fugard, she is a novelist and poet. The couple have since divorced. Their daughter, Lisa Fugard, is also a novelist.[16]

The Fugards moved to Johannesburg in 1958, where he worked as a clerk in a Native Commissioners' Court, which "made him keenly aware of the injustices of apartheid."[2] He was good friends with prominent local anti-apartheid figures, which had a profound impact on Fugard, whose plays' political impetus brought him into conflict with the national government; to avoid prosecution, he had his plays produced and published outside South Africa.[15][17] A former alcoholic, Athol Fugard has been teetotal since the early 1980s.[18]

For several years Fugard lived in San Diego, California,[19] where he taught as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting, and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).[4][17] For the academic year 2000–2001, he was the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.[20] In 2012, Fugard relocated to South Africa, where he now lives permanently.[21][22] In 2016, in New York City Hall, Fugard was married to South African writer and academic Paula Fourie.[23] Fugard and Fourie presently live in the Cape Winelands region of South Africa.

Career

Early period

In 1958, Fugard organised "a multiracial theatre for which he wrote, directed, and acted", writing and producing several plays for it, including No-Good Friday (1958) and Nongogo (1959), in which he and his colleague black South African actor Zakes Mokae performed.[2] In 1978, Richard Eder of The New York Times criticized Nongogo as "awkward and thin. It is unable to communicate very much about its characters, or make them much more than the servants of a noticeably ticking plot." Eder argued, "Queenie is the most real of the characters. Her sense of herself and where she wants to go makes her believable and the crumbling of her dour defenses at a touch of hope makes her affecting. By contrast, Johnny is unreal. His warmth and hopefulness at the start crumble too suddenly and too completely".[24]

After returning to Port Elizabeth in the early 1960s, Athol and Sheila Fugard started The Circle Players,[2] which derives its name from their production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht.[25]

In 1961, in Johannesburg, Fugard and Mokae starred as the brothers Morris and Zachariah in the single-performance world première of Fugard's play The Blood Knot (revised and retitled Blood Knot in 1987), directed by Barney Simon.[26] In 1989, Lloyd Richards of The Paris Review declared The Blood Knot to be Fugard's first "major play".[27]

In 1962, Fugard publicly supported the Anti-Apartheid Movement (1959–94), an international boycott of South African theatres due to their segregated audiences, leading to government restrictions on him and police surveillance of him and his theatre, and leading him to have his plays published and produced outside South Africa.[17]

Lucille Lortel produced The Blood Knot at the Cricket Theatre, Off Broadway, in New York City, in 1964, "launch[ing]" Fugard's "American career."[28]

The Serpent Players

In the 1960s, Fugard formed the Serpent Players, whose name derives from their first venue, the former snake pit (hence the name) at the Port Elizabeth Museum,[17] "a group of black actors worker-players who earned their living as teachers, clerks, and industrial workers, and cannot thus be considered amateurs in the manner of leisured whites", developing and performing plays "under surveillance by the Security Police", according to Loren Kruger's The Dis-illusion of Apartheid, published in 2004.[29] The group largely consisted of black men, including Winston Ntshona, John Kani, Welcome Duru, Fats Bookholane and Mike Ngxolo as well as Nomhle Nkonyeni and Mabel Magada. They all got together, albeit at different intervals, and decided to do something about their lives using the stage. In 1961 they met Athol Fugard, a white man who grew up in Port Elizabeth and who recently returned from Johannesburg, and asked him if he could work with them "as he had the know-how theatrically—the tricks, how to use the stage, movements, everything"; they worked with Athol Fugard since then, "and that is how the Serpent Players got together."[30] At the time, the group performed anything they could lay their hands on in South Africa as they had no access to any libraries. These included Bertolt Brecht, August Strindberg, Samuel Beckett, William Shakespeare and many other prominent playwrights of the time. In an interview in California, Ntshona and Kani were asked why they were doing the play Sizwe Banzi is Dead, which was considered a highly political and telling story of the South African political landscape at the time. Ntshona answered: "We are just a group of artists who love theatre. And we have every right to open the doors to anyone who wants to take a look at our play and our work. ... We believe that art is life and conversely, life is art. And no sensible man can divorce one from the other. That’s it. Other attributes are merely labels."[30] They mainly performed at the St Stephen's Hall – renamed the Douglas Ngange Mbopa Memorial Hall in 2013 – adjacent to St Stephen's Church, and other spaces in and around New Brighton, the oldest Black township in Port Elizabeth.

According to Loren Kruger, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago,

the Serpent Players used Brecht's elucidation of gestic acting, dis-illusion, and social critique, as well as their own experience of the satiric comic routines of urban African vaudeville, to explore the theatrical force of Brecht's techniques, as well as the immediate political relevance of a play about land distribution. Their work on the Caucasian Chalk Circle and, a year later, on Antigone[17] led directly to the creation, in 1966, of what is still [2004] South Africa's most distinctive Lehrstück [learning play]:'The Coat. Based on an incident at one of the many political trials involving the Serpent Players, The Coat dramatized the choices facing a woman whose husband, convicted of anti-apartheid political activity, left her only a coat and instructions to use it.[29]

Clive Barnes of The New York Times panned People Are Living There (1969) in 1971, arguing, "There are splinters of realities here, and pregnancies of feeling, hut [sic] nothing of significance emerges. In Mr. Fugard's earlier plays he seemed to be dealing with life at a proper level of humanity. Here—if real people are living there—they remain oddly quiet about it. [...] The first act rambles disconsolately, like a lonely type writer looking for a subject and the second act produces with pride a birthday party of Chaplinesque bathos but less than Chaplinesque invention and spirit. [...] [The characters] harangue one another in an awkward dislocation between a formal speech and an interior monologue."[31] Mark Blankenship of Variety negatively reviewed a 2005 revival of the same work, writing that it "lacks the emotional intensity and theatrical imagination that mark such Fugard favorites" as "Master Harold"...and the Boys. Blankenship also stated, however, that the performance he attended featuring "only haphazard sketches of plot and character" was perhaps the result of Fugard allowing director Suzanne Shepard to revise the play without showing him the changes.[32]

The Serpent Players conceptualised and co-authored many plays that they subsequently went on to perform for a variety of audiences in many theatres around the world. The following are some of their notable and most popular plays:

  • Their first production was Niccolo Machiavelli's La Mandragola, directed by Fugard as The Cure and set in the township. Other productions include Georg Buchner's Woyzeck, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Sophocles' Antigone. When the group had turned to improvisation, they came up with classic works such as Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, emerging as inner experiences of the actors who are also the co-authors of the plays.
  • In The Coat, Kruger observes, "The participants were engaged not only in representing social relationships on stage but also on enacting and revising their own dealings with each other and with institutions of apartheid oppression from the law courts downward", and "this engagement testified to the real power of Brecht's apparently utopian plan to abolish the separation of player and audience and to make of each player a 'statesman' or social actor.... Work on The Coat led indirectly to the Serpent Players' most famous and most Brechtian productions, Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973)."[29]

Fugard developed these two plays for the Serpent Players in workshops, working with John Kani and Winston Ntshona,[29] publishing them in 1974 with his own play Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (1972). The authorities considered the title of The Island, which alludes to Robben Island, the prison where Nelson Mandela was being held, too controversial, so Fugard and the Serpent Players used the alternative title The Hodoshe Span (Hodoshe meaning "carrion fly" in Xhosa).

  • These plays "espoused a Brechtian attention to the demonstration of gest and social situations and encouraged audiences to analyze rather than merely applaud the action"; for example, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, which infused a Brechtian critique and vaudevillian irony-–especially in Kani's virtuoso improvisation-–even provoked an African audience's critical interruption and interrogation of the action.[29]
  • While dramatising frustrations in the lives of his audience members, the plays simultaneously drew them into the action and attempted to have them analyse the situations of the characters in Brechtian fashion, according to Kruger.[29]
  • Blood Knot was filmed by BBC Television in 1967, with Fugard's collaboration, starring the Jamaican actor Charles Hyatt as Zachariah and Fugard himself as Morris, as in the original 1961 première in Johannesburg.[33] Less pleased than Fugard, the South African government of B. J. Vorster confiscated Fugard's passport.[9][34]

Fugard's play A Lesson from Aloes (1978) was described as one of his major works by Alvin Klein of The New York Times,[35] though others have written more lukewarm reviews.

Later period
The Fugard Theatre in District Six, Cape Town

"Master Harold"...and the Boys, written in 1982, incorporates "strong autobiographical matter"; nonetheless "it is fiction, not memoir", as Cousins: A Memoir and some of Fugard's other works are subtitled.[36] The play is one of Fugard's best-known works, along with The Road to Mecca (1984).[37]

His post-apartheid plays, such as Valley Song, The Captain's Tiger: a memoir for the stage and his 2007 play, Victory, focus more on personal than political issues.[38][39]

The Fugard Theatre, in the District Six area of Cape Town opened with performances by the Isango Portobello theatre company in February 2010 and a new play written and directed by Athol Fugard, The Train Driver, played at the theatre in March 2010.[40]

Fugard's plays are produced internationally, have won multiple awards, and several have been made into films, including among their actors Fugard himself.[41]

His film debut as a director occurred in 1992, when he co-directed the adaptation of his play The Road to Mecca with Peter Goldsmid, who also wrote the screenplay.[41]

The film adaptation of his novel Tsotsi, written and directed by Gavin Hood, won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006.[41]

Plays

In chronological order of first production and/or publication:[9][42][43][44][45]

Bibliography
  • Statements: [Three Plays]. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (OUP), 1974. ISBN 0-19-211385-2 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-211385-6 (13). ISBN 0-19-281170-3 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-281170-7 (13). (Co-authored with John Kani and Winston Ntshona; see below.)
  • Three Port Elizabeth Plays: Blood Knot; Hello and Goodbye; and Boesman and Lena. Oxford and New York, 1974. ISBN 0-19-211366-6.
  • Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island. New York: Viking Press, 1976. ISBN 0-670-64784-5
  • Dimetos and Two Early Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1977. ISBN 0-19-211390-9.
  • Boesman and Lena and Other Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1980. ISBN 0-19-570197-6.
  • Selected Plays of Fugard: Notes. Ed. Dennis Walder. London: Longman, 1980. Beirut: York Press, 1980. ISBN 0-582-78129-9.
  • Tsotsi: a novel. New York: Random House, 1980. ISBN 978-0-394-51384-3.
  • A Lesson from Aloes: A Play. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1981.
  • Marigolds in August. A. D. Donker, 1982. ISBN 0-86852-008-X.
  • Boesman and Lena. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1983. ISBN 0-19-570331-6.
  • People Are Living There. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1983. ISBN 0-19-570332-4.
  • "Master Harold"...and the Boys. New York and London: Penguin, 1984. ISBN 0-14-048187-7.
  • The Road to Mecca: A Play in Two Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. ISBN 0-571-13691-5. [Suggested by the life and work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa.]
  • Selected Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1987. ISBN 0-19-281929-1. [Includes: "Master Harold"...and the Boys; Blood Knot (new version); Hello and Goodbye; Boesman and Lena.]
  • A Place with the Pigs: a personal parable. London: Faber and Faber, 1988. ISBN 0-571-15114-0.
  • My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays. Ed. and introd. Stephen Gray. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand UP, 1990. ISBN 1-86814-117-9.
  • Blood Knot and Other Plays. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1991. ISBN 1-55936-019-4.
  • Playland and Other Worlds. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand UP, 1992. ISBN 1-86814-219-1.
  • The Township Plays. Ed. and introd. Dennis Walder. Oxford and New York: OxfordUP, 1993. ISBN 0-19-282925-4 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-282925-2 (13). [Includes: No-good Friday, Nongogo, The Coat, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, and The Island.]
  • Cousins: A Memoir, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand UP, 1994. ISBN 1-86814-278-7.
  • Hello and Goodbye. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1994. ISBN 0-19-571099-1.
  • Valley Song. London: Faber and Faber, 1996. ISBN 0-571-17908-8.
  • The Captain's Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1997. ISBN 1-86814-324-4.
  • Athol Fugard: Plays. London: Faber and Faber, 1998. ISBN 0-571-19093-6.
  • Interior Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 2000. ISBN 0-19-288035-7.
  • Port Elizabeth Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 2000. ISBN 0-19-282529-1.
  • Sorrows and Rejoicings. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2002. ISBN 1-55936-208-1.
  • Exits and Entrances. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2004. ISBN 0-8222-2041-5.
Co-authored with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
  • Statements: [Three Plays]. 1974. By Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. Rev. ed. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1978. ISBN 0-19-281170-3 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-281170-7 (13). ["Two workshop productions devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, and a new play"; includes: Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.]
Co-authored with Ross Devenish
  • The Guest: an episode in the life of Eugene Marais. By Athol Fugard and Ross Devenish. Craighall: A. D. Donker, 1977. ISBN 0-949937-36-3. (Die besoeker: 'n episode in die lewe van Eugene Marais. Trans. into Afrikaans by Wilma Stockenstrom. Craighall: A. D. Donker, 1977. ISBN 0-949937-43-6.)

Filmography
Films adapted from Fugard's plays and novel[41]
Film roles[41]

Selected awards and nominations
Theatre[50]
Honorary awards
Honorary degrees
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See also
  • South Africa under apartheid

Notes
  1. David Smith (12 August 2014). "Athol Fugard: 'Prejudice and racism are still alive and well in South Africa'". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. Craig McLuckie (Okanagan College) (3 October 2003). "Athol Fugard (1932–)". The Literary Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 25 August 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2008.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. Andie Miller (October 2009). "From Words into Pictures: In conversation with Athol Fugard". Eclectica. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  4. "Athol Fugard". University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
  5. "Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (1932 -)". 2005 National Orders Awards. South African Government Online (info.gov.za). 27 September 2005. Archived from the original (Web) on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  6. "Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  7. "The Fugard Theatre". Creative Feel. March 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  8. "Athol Fugard". Encyclopædia Britannica. 24 November 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  9. Iain Fisher. "Athol Fugard: Biography". Athol Fugard: Statements. iainfisher.com. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
  10. Fisher gives Fugard's full birth name as "Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard", spelling Fugard's middle name as Lanigan, following Dennis Walder, Athol Fugard, Writers and Their Work (Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2003). It is spelled as Lannigan in Athol Fugard, Notebooks 1960–1977 (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2004) and in Stephen Gray's Athol Fugard (Johannesburg and New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982) and many other publications. The former spelling (single n) seems more authoritative, however, as it is also used by Marianne McDonald, a close UCSD colleague and friend of Fugard, in "A Gift for His Seventieth Birthday: Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings" Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego, rpt. from TheatreForum 21 (Summer/Fall 2002); in Fugard's National Orders Award (27 September 2005) from the government of South Africa, presented to "Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (1932 –)"; and in his "Full Profile" in Who's Who of Southern Africa (2007).
  11. Athol Fugard; Dennis Walder, ed. and introd (2000). The Township Plays. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. pp. M1 xvi. ISBN 978-0-19-282925-2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) (Google Books limited preview.)
  12. "History: St Dominic's Prior School ... Marist Brothers College" (Web). St Dominic's Priory School. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  13. "Boesman and Lena – Author Biography". Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  14. Albert Wertheim (2000). The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000. pp. 215, 224–38. ISBN 978-0-253-33823-5. (Google Books limited preview.)
  15. Sheila Fugard. "The Apprenticeship Years: Athol Fugard issue". Twentieth Century Literature. findarticles.com. 39.4 (Winter 1993). Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  16. Alden Mudge (1 January 2006). "African Odyssey: Lisa Fugard Explores the Moral Ambiguities of Apartheid". First Person: Interview. Bookpage.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
  17. Marianne McDonald (Professor of Theatre and Classics) (April 2003). "Introd. of Athol Fugard" (YouTube Video clip). Times Topics, The New York Times. Retrieved 1 October 2008.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) [Times Topics menu includes link to UCSD YouTube clip of Athol Fugard's lecture, "A Catholic Antigone: an episode in the life of Hildegard of Bingen", Eugene M. Burke C.S.P. Lectureship on Religion and Society, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).]
  18. Athol Fugard (31 October 2010). "Once upon a life: Athol Fugard". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  19. Athol Fugard & Serena Davies (8 April 2007). "My Week: Athol Fugard". Telegraph.co.uk. London. Retrieved 29 September 2008.
  20. Athol Fugard and Bruce Burgun (IUB theater professor) (29 September 2000). "Conversation on line with South African Dramatist Athol Fugard". Indiana University at Bloomington. Archived from the original on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2008.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) (RealAudio clip of interview.)
  21. "Athol Fugard Gets Personal In 'Shadow of the Hummingbird' At Long Wharf". Hartford Courant. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  22. Samodien, Leila (17 July 2014). "Athol Fugard wins prestigious award". Cape Times. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  23. 2, Creative Feel (13 May 2016). "Congratulations Athol Fugard & Paula Fourie | Creative Feel". Creative Feel. Retrieved 16 November 2017.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. Eder, Richard (4 December 1978). "'Nongogo,' a Drama". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  25. Loren Kruger (2004). "Chapter 5: The Dis-illusion of Apartheid: Brecht in South Africa". Post-Imperial Brecht Politics and Performance, East and South. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. M1 215–80. ISBN 978-0-521-81708-0. (Google Books.)
  26. Mel Gussow (24 September 1985). "Stage: 'The Blood Knot' by Fugard". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  27. Richards, Lloyd (1989). "Athol Fugard, The Art of Theater No. 8". Summer 1989 (111). ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  28. "Athol Fugard: Biography". The Internet Off-Broadway Database. Archived from the original on 15 March 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
  29. Loren Kruger (2004). "Chapter 5: The Dis-illusion of Apartheid: Brecht in South Africa". Post-Imperial Brecht Politics and Performance, East and South. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. M1 217–18. ISBN 978-0-521-81708-0. (Google Books limited preview.)
  30. "'Art is Life and Life is Art'. An interview with John Kani and Winston Ntshona of the Serpent Players from South Africa", in Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies [Internet], 6(2), 1976, pp. 5–26. Available from: eScholarship, University of California. Accessed 26 July 2017.
  31. Barnes, Clive (19 November 1971). "Theater: People Are Living There'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  32. Blankenship, Mark (17 June 2005). "People Are Living There". Variety. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  33. Athol Fugard (1983). Notebooks 1960–1977. Craighall: A. D. Donker, 1983. ISBN 0-86852-011-X. Back in S'Kop after five weeks in London for BBC TV production of The Blood Knot. Myself as Morrie, with Charles Hyatt as Zach. Robin Midgley directing. Midgley reduced the play to 90 minutes....Midgley did manage to dig up things that had been missed in all the other productions. Most exciting was his treatment of the letter writing scene – 'Address her' – which he turned into an essay in literacy...Zach sweating as the words clot in his mouth....
  34. Dennis Walder, "Crossing Boundaries: The Genesis of the Township Plays", Special issue on Athol Fugard, Twentieth Century Literature (Winter 1993); rpt. findarticles.com. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  35. Klein, Alvin (13 February 1994). "THEATER; 'Hello and Goodbye,' Early Fugard Play". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  36. Albert Wertheim (2000). The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 225. ISBN 978-0-253-33823-5. (Google Books limited preview.)
  37. Arnott, Christopher (8 May 2018). "Fugard's 'A Lesson From Aloes' Ends Hartford Stage's 2017-18 Season". courant.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  38. Brian Logan (28 July 2007). "Finally, It's Personal". The Times. London. Retrieved 1 October 2008. [Fugard's] plays helped to end apartheid, but it's Athol Fugard's own life that now inspires his work.
  39. Charles Spencer (17 August 2007). "Victory: The Fight's Gone Out of Fugard". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 1 October 2008. [Theatre review of Victory at the Theatre Royal, Bath.]
  40. Dugger, Celia W. (13 March 2010). "His Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid's Ghost". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  41. "Filmography" in Athol Fugard at AllMovie. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
  42. Iain Fisher. "Athol Fugard: Plays" (Web). Athol Fugard: Statements. iainfisher.com. Retrieved 1 October 2008. Some of his plays are grouped together. Sometimes this is based on the subject matter (the Port Elizabeth plays), sometimes it is based on a period and style (the Statement Plays). ... But no category is complete, and there is overlap (The Township and The Statement Plays) and some plays do not easily fit into any categories.
  43. Fisher observes in the Fugard "Biography" section of Athol Fugard: Statements that South African writer and critic Stephen Gray classifies many of Fugard's dramatic works according to chronological periods of composition and similarities of style: "Apprenticeship" ([1956–]1957); "Social Realism" (1958–1961); "Chamber Theatre" (1961–1970); "Improvised Theatre" (1966–1973); and "Poetic Symbolism" (1975[–1990]).
  44. Stephen Gray, ed. (1991). File on Fugard. London: Methuen Drama. ISBN 978-0-413-64580-7.
  45. Athol Fugard; Stephen Gray, ed. and introd (1990). My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. ISBN 1-86814-117-9.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  46. Master Harold...and the Boys at AllMovie. Accessed 3 October 2008.
  47. The Guest at Steenkampskraal at AllMovie. Accessed 4 October 2008.
  48. Meetings with Remarkable Men at AllMovie. Accessed 3 October 2008.
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