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Paul Auster meets Samuel Beckett. Dry Remains is both literary detective story and dazzlingly macabre anti-biography, co-written by one of South Africa's most celebrated authors.

Two Black scavengers emerge from the underbrush loaded with their total possessions: the makings of a shack and a battery of pots and pans, but nothing to cook in them.

Genre: Drama Characters: 2 males, 1 female Scenery: Bare Stage On board the SS Graigaur a young sailor begins to pen his first novel. Assisted by his muse, a portrait of his mother comes to life, and supported by his friend, an illiterate ship's mechanic, he struggles to balance romance and reality. This most personal of Athol Fugard's works is strictly autobiographical, at twenty he abandoned his university education, hitch hiked up Africa an...

My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994. The perspective of each young woman on her country and her people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, exuberance, warmth and humour. A small Karoo town provides the setting for Valley Song, which explores the theme of youth in search of itself, and provides a lyrical metaphor for the new South Africa in which it was set, and has been termed ...

A classic of South African literature, adapted into a major motion picture, introduced by Jonathan Kaplan

A challenging examination of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa from an iconic playwright.

With extracts from Athol Fugard's unpublished notebooks"--Page 1 of cover.

When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helens peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness. An incandescent drama by South Africas most celebrated playwright.

One of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights finds humor and heart b reak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. Starring Leon Addison Brown, Keith David, and Bobby Steggart

Roelf, a train driver, has spent weeks searching for the identities of a mother and child he unintentionally killed with his train. After a fruitless journey through shanty towns, he encounters an old gravedigger named Simon who helps the desperate man unburden his conscience. Based on a true story, The Train Driver is a soulful exploration of guilt, suffering, and the powerful bonds that grow between strangers.

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A play which tells a gentle story of how the generations cope with the end of apartheid in South Africa. A young women wants to leave home to begin to lead her own life, but her grandfather takes this as an insult to his way of life and everything he has worked for.

This collection of Athol Fugard's plays confirms his reputation as 'South Africa's most accomplished playwright' (The Times). The collection includes the plays The Road to Mecca, A Place with the Pigs, My Children! My Africa!, Playland and Valley Song, and is introduced by the author.

The latest works by one of the world's foremost playwrights.

Are aging Miss Helen's bizarre sculptures, fashioned from beer cans and old headlights, evidence of artistry or insanity? South Africa's preeminent playwright Athol Fugard explores the backwaters of human creativity in this inquiry into the transformative power of art.

A legendary playwright mines the depth of the human heart.

With a new preface by the author, the four plays in this selection of Athol Fugard's best work are set among the people and in the place he knows most intimately - Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Each explores a close and tense family situation or relationship against the background of wider suffering and tensions, engaging our sympathies for South Africans of all races in their struggle to retain dignity and hope.

This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage.

Full Length, Drama Characters: 2 male, 1 female Unit set. 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 bet...

The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher.