Athol Fugard
Playwright
1932-06-11 – 2025-03-08
Athol Fugard was a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director. He became internationally known for works examining apartheid and its human consequences, including collaborations with the Serpent Players. His writing remains central to modern South African theater.
Books by Athol Fugard
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My children! My Africa!
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Tsotsi
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"Master Harold"-- and the boys
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Quotes by Athol Fugard
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Love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
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Love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
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All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
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How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.
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I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
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For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
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