Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona’s classic play The Island was performed at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda. The actors and director of the play said it was an honour to put on the ...

Playwright Athol Fugard’s life and career will be celebrated at a special event held at the Royal Court in London. Taking place on May 11, the theatre said it would honour “the life and legacy” of ...

MARK TURNER holds on tight for a mesmerising display of Neath-born ragtime virtuosity I WAS shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to ...

Gavin Hood directed the 2006 Best Foreign Language Academy Award winning film Tsotsi, based on the acclaimed novel by South Africa’s greatest playwright, the late Athol Fugard. Hood only met Fugard ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose work explored the racial oppressions of apartheid, died at the age of 92. Throughout six decades, Fugard produced more than 30 plays, to great public ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As a playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard defied South Africa's apartheid system, and the government punished him for it. He died Saturday at the age of 92.

Let's get back to the interview I recorded with white South African playwright, actor and director Athol Fugard. He died Saturday at age 92. His plays were in opposition to his country's apartheid ...

When I spoke with Fugard in 1986, I asked him why he remained in South Africa, where he lived under the apartheid system he opposed. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) ATHOL FUGARD: I suppose it's ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “‘Master Harold’… and the Boys” ...