A compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world (Time).

Originally produced in 1982, Master Harold and the Boys is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse borders and time.

The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout Theatre's revival of this searing coming of age story considered by many to be Fugard's masterpiece. A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two black waiters who work in his mother's tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist alcoholic father is on his way home from the hospital. An ensuing rage unwitting

Valley Song is a vivid, haunting, serreptitiously personal report from the front. It's a complex play, simply and beautifully done. --Vincent Canby, New York Times

Rarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served as one of the moral beacons in the bleak world of South Africa, and now, in Valley Song--this coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go of the past--he applies his great gift to the work of healing and of envisioning the future.

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The great South African playwright confronts the tragedy of apartheid in his native land in this compelling tale about the efforts of a humble and humane black teacher in a segregated township to persuade just one young person that education, not violence, is the answer to South Africa's problems.

A document of towering stature. Philadelphia Inquirer

The drama vacillates superbly between politica

When we meet Tsotsi, he is a man without a name (tsotsi is Afrikaans for hoodlum) who has repressed his past and now exists only to stage and execute vicious crimes. When he inadvertently kidnaps a baby, Tsotsi is confronted with memories of his own painful childhood, and this angry young man begins to rediscover his own humanity, dignity, and capacity to love.

Set in 1963 in a white district of Port Elizabeth South Africa this important play gives a compelling portrait of a society caught in the grip of a police state and the effect it has on individuals. A liberal Afrikaner who is actively involved in anti-apartheid activity and his wife who is recovering from a nervous breakdown brought about by a police raid on their home are waiting for dinner guests a Black family. They never arrive but the head of the family does. He has just been released from prison and plans to flee South Africa after first confronting the Afrikaner with the charge that he has betrayed him.

The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world.--Time

If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be.--Newsweek

Athol Fugard can say more with a single line than most playwrights convey in an entire script.--Variety

Legendary theatre artist Athol Fugard returns to the stage for the first time in fifteen years in this, his latest work. The Shadow of the Hummingbird tells the story of an ailing man in his eighties and the afternoon spent with his ten year-old grandson. In a charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, Fugard continues to mine the depths of the human spirit with profound empathy and heart. The text of the play includes an introductory Prelude by Paula Fourie with extracts from Fugard's unpublished notebooks.

Athol Fugard has been working in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor for more than fifty years. In 2011, he received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, and he was the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama at Oxford University. His plays include Blood Knot, Boesman and Lena, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys, The Road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa! and The Blue Iris.

Tender, ruminative... Fugard has been anatomizing the evils of apartheid, and the troubling legacies it left behind, throughout his long and distinguished career. --Charles Isherwood, New York Times

Inspired by the life of Nukain Mabuza, a self-taught artist who painted the boulders on the farm on which he worked, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek observes two differing experiences with racism, in the decades during and following apartheid, while ultimately illuminating the meaning of preserving the history of one's own past.

If there is a more urgent and indispensible playwright in world theatre than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be.--Jack Kroll, Newsweek

One of the true contemporary masters of the stage, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written one of his most stunning works. Sorrows and Rejoicings explores the legacy of Apartheid on two women--one white, the other black--who on the surface seem to have little in common except for their love of one man, a white poet who is attached to the Karoo land of South Africa. The drama moves between past and present, reliving the poet's despondent years in exile and his eventual return to a new South Africa. With lyrical grace, Fugard once again demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history.

South African playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard is one of the world's leading theatre artists, of whom The New Yorker has said, A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize on Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.

Also available by Athol Fugard:

The Road to Mecca

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My Children! My Africa!

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Statements

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Blood Knot and Other Plays

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Valley Song

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