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Athol Fugard Theatre5/9/2021
He found work on a ship, and travelled around the world for two years before returning home.His first work in theatres was a piece called the The Rehearsal Room.Fugard wrote, acted, and directed this play which with its multiracial cast openly rejected segregation in South African theatres.This led to most of his works being banned by the government.
In the 1960s, Fugard returned to Port Elizabeth where he partnered with The Serpent Players. The following year he wrote his first international success The Blood Knot. This play confronted apartheid so effectively that the government withdrew his passport. The government later relaxed the restriction, allowing him to visit England to direct a play he had written, Boesman and Lena. Another play, A Lesson from Aloes won him an international award in 1980 from the New York Critics Circle. He continues to write and act, his latest work being The Captains Tiger published in 1999.
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