My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition)

My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition) PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366915
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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

My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition)

My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition) PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366915
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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

Theatre and Human Rights

Theatre and Human Rights PDF Author: Gary M. English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040102611
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations of human rights-related violations and abuses, this study focuses on dramatic form and structure, in addition to content, as uniquely positioned to interrogate important questions in human rights theory and practice. This project positions theatre as a method of examination in addition to the important purposes the arts serve to raise consciousness that accompany other, often considered more primary modes of analysis. A main feature of this approach includes emphasis on dialectical structures in drama and human rights and integration of applied theatre and critical ethnography with more traditional theatre. This integration will demonstrate how theatre and human rights operates beyond the arts as representation model, offering a primary means of analysis, activism, and political discourse. This book will be of great interest to theatre and human rights practitioners and activists, scholars, and students.

Blood Knot and Other Plays

Blood Knot and Other Plays PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366877
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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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

American Theatre

American Theatre PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Cousins

Cousins PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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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

The Shadow of the Hummingbird PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367954
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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"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. The Shadow of the Hummingbird tells the story of an ailing man in his eighties and the afternoon spent with his ten year-old grandson. In a charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, Fugard continues to mine the depths of the human spirit with profound empathy and heart. The text of the play includes an introductory Prelude by Paula Fourie with extracts from Fugard’s unpublished notebooks. Athol Fugard has been working in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor for more than fifty years. In 2011, he received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, and he was the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama at Oxford University. His plays include Blood Knot, Boesman and Lena, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys, The Road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa! and The Blue Iris.

Playland

Playland PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559360715
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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"Set in a traveling amusement park's temporary encampment on the outskirts of a small town, Playland charts the unlikely relationship between a white man recently released from military service and a black man who works as the carnival's night watchman. In the course of the long New Year's Eve they spend together which marks the transition from the '80s to the '90s, they are forced to confront not only their long-held racial animosities, but the soul-searching secrets they share. Also included in this volume is A Place With the Pigs, Fugard's "personal parable" based on the true story of Pavel Ivanovich Navrotsky, a deserter from the Soviet army who spent the forty-one years of his self-imposed exile in a pigsty."--Back cover.

Valley Song

Valley Song PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 155936694X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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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 .

Sorrows and Rejoicings

Sorrows and Rejoicings PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559362085
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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"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 love of one man, a white poet who is attached to the Karoo land of South Africa. The drama moves between past and present, reliving the poet's despondent years in exile and his eventual return to a new South Africa. With lyrical grace, Fugard once again demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history. South African playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard is one of the world's leading theatre artists, of whom The New Yorker has said, "A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize on Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize." Also available by Athol Fugard: The Road to Mecca PB $11.95 0-930452-79-8 * USA My Children! My Africa! PB $10.95 1-55936-014-3 o USA Statements PB $10.95 0-930452-61-5 * USA Blood Knot and Other Plays PB $ 14.95 1-55936-020-8 * USA Valley Song PB $10.95 1-55936-119-0 * USA

The Captain's Tiger

The Captain's Tiger PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366885
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 73

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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, starring Mr. Fugard.