Athol Fugard: 15 books

"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...

"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, NewsweekOne of the true contemporary masters of the stage, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written one of his most stunning works. Sorrows...

"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...

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...

“A rare playwright who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.”—The New YorkerThis new play about life and art by renowned playwright Athol Fugard is based on his early friendship with actor Andrew Huegonit, considered the finest...

World renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard recreates the world of his youth in his newest play, based on his experiences aboard a tramp steamer. This critically acclaimed drama has already had productions in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Princeton N.J., and at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina. The New York premiere is schedules for January 1999, staring Mr. Fugard.

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.

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,...

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,...

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 .

Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.

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

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

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