Athol Fugard
Список книг автора Athol FugardThe Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek (TCG Edition)
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 Revolver Creek marks the 16th book by Athol Fugard published by TCG, the most by any writer.Athol Fugard has been writing plays since the 1970s, winning numerous awards throughout his expansive career.In 2011, he was honored with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.He has won two New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play (A Lesson from Aloes) in 1981 and Best Foreign Play (The Road to Mecca) in 1988.His play «Master Harold»…and the Boys won a Drama Desk Award in in 1982.In 1996, Fugard won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, in addition to a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival in 1992 for his play Boesman and Lena.
Tsotsi
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 decency and compassion can survive against the odds.
The Shadow of the Hummingbird
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 African production, and is regarded by the authors as the final and definitive one.
Die laaste karretjiegraf
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 naby Colesberg te wees. Hul pa, Koot, was op sy dag die voorste skaapskeerder, maar nou is hy in die tronk vir die moord op hy sy tweede vrou. Na sy vrylating spoor Sarah, ’n navorser wat jare gelede met die gesin te doen gehad het, hom op. Saam neem hul bestekopname van die karretjiemense se verlede en toekoms.
A Lesson from Aloes
Two former political activists confront each other and the events which led to their sudden falling-out years ago.
Valley Song
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 .
Blood Knot and Other Plays
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