Athol Fugard

Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood, to rediscover himself and his capacity for love. Turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2006, Tsotsi's raw power and rare humanity show how...

The Shadow of the Hummingbird explores the loss of innocence and the need to maintain a sense of wonder at the fleeting beauty of the world. The play premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, USA, in 2014, and an expanded version was subsequently staged at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, as well as in Johannesburg and Bloemfontein. Athol Fugard returned to the stage for the first time in 15 years to play the role of Oupa in these two productions. This publication reflects the South...

"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."— Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."— Newsweek "Athol Fugard can say more with a single line than most playwrights convey in an entire script."— Variety Legendary theatre artist Athol Fugard returns to the stage for the first time in fifteen years in this, his latest work. ...

These three Port Elizabeth plays, which established South African playwright Athol Fugard's international reputation more than twenty years ago, examine with passion and grace close family relationships strained almost unendurably by the harshest of economic and political conditions. «A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.»–Mel Gussow, The New Yorker

Two former political activists confront each other and the events which led to their sudden falling-out years ago.

Rarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard has with South Africa. Valley Song, is a work of healing and of envisioning the future. This coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go of the past .

Athol Fugard het met die koms van sy tagtigste verjaarsdag besluit om ’n toneelstuk in sy ma se moedertaal te skryf, soos sy hom jare gelede gevra het. Met behulp van Riana Steyn se kennis en navorsing oor die karretjiemense het hierdie toneelstuk tot stand gekom. Dit is die verhaal van die Geduld-gesin, wat, na die dood van hul ouma Mieta, haar in die Karoo-veld onder klippe begrawe, soos die gebruik onder die karretjiemense is. Haar kleinkinders se enigste vooruitsig blyk die plakkerskamp...

In this remarkable memoir, Athol Fugard, author of The Road to Mecca, A Lesson From Aloes, Master Harold…and the boys, Valley Song and numerous other works for the stage, paints a moving study of his early years in South Africa. Cousins focuses on Fugard's relationship with his two cousins and their impact, which led the author to a lifelong pursuit of a writing career.

"Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre."–Time

•major productions across the U.S. •New York premiere scheduled for the Manhattan Theatre Club in January 1999. •the 10th title by Fugard published by TCG • Cousins 1559361322, sold 2400. • This title follows the story in Cousins ; this is an extension of the same story. • Author starts, directs, and writes

World premiere at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway) at the Pershing Square Center in New York City the spring of 2015. The original production was widely acclaimed by New York critics.Inspired by the life of outsider artist Nukain Mabuzza.As it centers on the historical context of apartheid, the play would do well in academic courses of history, theatre, and African studies.Fugard discusses this play in an interview for an episode of “All Things Considered” on NPR.The Painted Rocks at...

"If there is a more urgent and indispensible playwright in world theatre than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek One of the true contemporary masters of the stage, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written one of his most stunning works. Sorrows and Rejoicings explores the legacy of Apartheid on two women—one white, the other black—who on the surface seem to have little in common except for their...

"For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this."—Athol Fugard "A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it."—Sunday Independent The Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a chronicler of his native South Africa's apartheid past, directed its...

–13th book by Athol Fugard published by TCG -Combined sales of his books top 100,000 copies -One of the world's most produced playwrights

The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his «old-fashioned» black teacher.

A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow.