Athol Fugard has died at 92

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/9/25 at 1:04pm

Perhaps best known for "Master Harold" ...and the boys, Fugard received 8 Tony Award nominations for Best Play and Best Director of a Play. He received a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2011. His last Broadway production was THE ROAD TO MECCA in 2012.

From The Guardian:

"The South African playwright and director Athol Fugard, whose works included the plays Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island and the novel Tsotsi, has died at the age of 92. A major political dissident playwright of the 20th century, Fugard wrote more than 30 dramas including Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (in 1972) and “Master Harold” … and the Boys (1982). Both of those drew upon the time in the 1950s when he could only find employment as a clerk in one of the courts where black South Africans were charged (and inevitably convicted) of breaches of the “pass laws”, designed to control the movements of a racially segregated population under the apartheid system. There, he witnessed hourly the dehumanisation of those who had chosen the “wrong” streets or people."

 

Rest in Power.

Updated On: 3/9/25 at 01:04 PM

[BETTY22]

Posted: 3/9/25 at 4:42pm

Rest in peace 

[mrshowbiz90210]

Posted: 3/9/25 at 6:14pm

The Island is still required reading. RIP!