Playwright Athol Fugard: a man of obstinacy and courage by Michael Billington

A new documentary charts the struggle of Afrikaans playwright Athol Fugard against the violence of apartheid. Michael Billington admires his spiritI have always had slightly mixed feelings about the South African playwright Athol Fugard. I would rate his Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island, on which he collaborated in the 1970s with the actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona, as among the supreme testaments of the dehum…

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