Athol Fugard starters kit and moving on

If you are interested in Fugard here are some places to start, or if you get really hooked here are extra resources.

Reading the Plays

USA

Port Elizabeth Plays is a good place to start. The book contains:

Master Harold... and the Boys
Blood Knot
Hello and Goodbye
Boesman and Lena

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Live

Any live performance is worth seeing, but especially recommended are Blood Knot, Sizwe Bansi, and The Island.

Check the Hot News page- the plays are performed regularly throughout the world.

Videos/ audio

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		Boesman and Lena is readily available in US and USA, both on video and DVD.
		Master Harold and the Boys with Matthew Broderick, Zakes Mokae and John Kani is available in the USA on video.
		The Killing Fields is easily obtainable and shows Fugard acting in a minor role in the embassy scene.
		Tsotsi is the oscar winning film of Fugard's only novel.
		A Dry White Season is a good film about apartheid and one of Zakes Mokae´s best non Fugard roles.

		The audio cassette of Blood Knot. Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae, directed by Fugard. Collins Caedmon Audio Theatre. ISBN 0-00-104213-0 This performance is highly recommended.
		The audio cassette of Playland.
		The audio cassette of The Road to Mecca.

On-line study Guides

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	an on-line study guide to Master Harold
	an on-line study guide to The Road to Mecca
	an on-line study guide to The Island
	lots of articles about Fugard
	a glossary of words

Books about Fugard

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		There are two recent biographies of Fugard. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World by Albert Wertheim
		and Athol Fugard by Dennis Walder.
		For detailed comments on plays and staging there are the essays in Stephen Gray´s Athol Fugard (available from second-hand booksellers), and Fugard´s own Notebooks.

Also check the links pages which have more on the plays, as well as on Fugard and the history of South Africa.