Elysium Theatre returns with Playland from
Athol Fugard, South Africa's greatest living dramatist, while London Classic Theatre brings Harold Pinter's No Man's Land to Hexham.
Tony Award-winning play The Island by John Kani, Winston Ntshona and
Athol Fugard, transports its audience to the notorious prison on Robben Island, South Africa - the place where Nelson Mandela was jailed for battling against apartheid.
SO GOES ONE OF THE CLIMACTIC MOMENTS OF
Athol Fugard's 1961 play Blood Knot.
"
Athol Fugard en Pieter-Dirk Uys gesels met Paula Fourie".
Despite a distinguished career spanning half a century, 82-yearold South African playwright
Athol Fugard still thinks of himself as an "outsider artist." That personal note adds another layer to his thoughtful and poignant new play, "The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek," inspired by Nukain Mabusa, a little-known South African outsider artist who devoted his life to decorating the stones and boulders on the hillside farm where he worked as a laborer.
He joins South African playwright
Athol Fugard, whose work helped bring the world's attention to the outrage of apartheid, and Estonian composer Arvo Part.
She won an Obie Award for the title role in
Athol Fugard's "Boesman and Lena'' and a Drama Desk Award for her role in "Wedding Band.''
There's a stark choice for the title character in this pacy, vigorous revival of
Athol Fugard's Apartheid-era tale of identity and freedom; retain his name and face the consequences meted out by an oppressive system, or take an unexpected chance offered to him to start anew.
PNN The Island The Island The Jenin based Freedom Theater will be touring their adaptation of
Athol Fugard's in the United States this fall.
But the company, known for performing challenging, provocative works in the summer, will once again present a three-play season, opening June 28 with
Athol Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes.