READ: James Ngcobo and Greg Homann pay tribute to fallen playwright Athol Fugard A friend, Fats Bookholane, told me about a group of actors called the Serpent Players Drama Group who were performing ...

It was Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost playwright and the great chronicler of his country’s apartheid past. There he was, sipping a cup of coffee like any ordinary person. I plucked up ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including ” ‘Master Harold’…and the Boys,” ”The Road to Mecca,” “Boesman and Lena,” ”A Lesson From Aloes,” died on Saturday.

The South African playwright and actor Athol Fugard, who died on March 8 at age 92, is the extraordinarily rare artist for whom one could make such lofty assertions. Mr. Fugard wrote more than 30 ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has lost a literary giant. Athol Fugard, the legendary playwright and anti-apartheid activist, passed away on Saturday. Over a career spanning seven decades ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose work explored the racial oppressions of apartheid, died on Saturday at the age of 92. Throughout six decades, Fugard produced more than 30 plays ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold ...

John Kani (left), Athol Fugard (center) and Winston Ntshona at the Royal Court Theatre in 1973. Picture: Evening Standard/Getty Images In his tribute to the playwright, President Cyril Ramaphosa ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As a playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard defied South Africa's apartheid system, and the government punished him for it. He died Saturday at the age of 92.

I WAS shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.