Theater

He is white with English and Afrikaner parents. After some acting experience he started writing plays, almost always set in South Africa and steeped in the politics of the day (apartheid and now post-apartheid). However the politics never affects his insight into people. Like Tennessee Williams, Fugard creates characters with strengths and weaknesses which make them unable to fit into what society requires.
South African playwright Athol Fugard who is one of the premier playwrights of African theater uses the power of theater with passion and effect...