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South Africa's giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
FILE - Actress Amy Irving sits with actor-director-playwright Athol Fugard during rehearsals of the play "The Road to Mecca" on Feb. 29, 1988 in New York. (AP Photo/Mario Cabrera, File ...
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Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92
When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...
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Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation. Born in Middelburg, South Africa ...
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Athol Fugard, 92, Playwright Who Exposed Torments of Apartheid, Dies
By Bruce Weber Bruce Weber is a former theater critic and obituary writer for The Times. Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose portrayals of intimate relationships burdened by ...
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Athol Fugard Dies: South African Playwright & ‘Tsotsi’ Writer Was 92
Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ever playwright, has died. He was 92. According to AP, the South ...
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South Africa's giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold’ ...