Five years later, undeterred, he starred in another interracial play, becoming the first Black actor to play Othello in a ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as 'The ...

His characters – tramps, discarded people, poor people, people on the fringes – are connected with all the people we know of ...

On stage, three powerhouse performers weave magic: Penny Wolhuter as Isabel, the spirited white student from across town; ...

Fugard was a white South African who wrote about the emotional and psychological consequences of his country's white ...

Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an Afrikaner mother, he was best known for his politically charged plays challenging ...

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities." ...

Athol Fugard worked with Black actors to create plays about life under apartheid in South Africa, often drawing from small personal moments, then telescoping them into wider observations of society.

Prolific South African playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, has died at the age of 92.