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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

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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 Sizwe Bansi and The Island.  Check the Hot News page- the plays are performed regularly throughout the world.

 

Videos/ audio

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click for Amazon USA DVD click for Amazon UK DVD Boesman and Lena is readily available in US and USA, both on video and DVD.
click for Amazon USA   Master Harold and the Boys with Matthew Broderick, Zakes Mokae and John Kani is available in the USA on video.
click for Amazon USA DVD click for Amazon UK video The Killing Fields is easily obtainable and shows Fugard acting in a minor role in the embassy scene.
click for Amazon USA DVD click for Amazon UK DVD Tsotsi is the oscar winning film of Fugard's only novel.
     
    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.

click for Amazon USA   The audio cassette of Playland.
click for Amazon USA   The audio cassette of The Road to Mecca.

 

On-line study Guides

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click for link an on-line study guide to Master Harold
Master Harold Studt Guide another on-line study guide to Master Harold
click for link an on-line study guide to The Road to Mecca
click for link an on-line study guide to The Island
click for link lots of articles about Fugard
 

 

Books about Fugard

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click for Amazon USA click for Amazon UK There are two recent biographies of Fugard. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World by Albert Wertheim
click for Amazon USA click for Amazon UK  and Athol Fugard by Dennis Walder.
click for Amazon USA click for Amazon UK 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.

 

 

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