biography
| name: |
Fugard, Athol (Harold Lanigan)
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pronunciation:
[foogah(r)d]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, theatre director, and actor, born in Middleburg, Cape Province, SC South Africa. He studied at Port Elizabeth Technical College and Cape Town University, became director of the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth (1965), and co-founded the Space Experimental Theatre, Cape Town (1972). His plays, set in contemporary South Africa, met with official opposition, notably The Blood Knot (1960) and Boesman and Lena (1969). Later works include Road to Mecca (1985), A Place with the Pigs (1988), My Children, My Africa! (1989), The Captain's Tiger (1998), and Sorrows and Rejoicings (2002). He has also written several film scripts, and a novel Tsotsi (1980). |
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