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	Athol Fugard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (born in 1932), better known as Athol Fugard, is a well-known South African playwright.
		Fugard married Sheila Meiring (a novelist and poet in her own right) in September 1956.
		Fugard made his directorial debut in 1992 with the film version of The Road to Mecca.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athol_Fugard (1186 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Athol Fugard
		Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard was born in Middelburg, South Africa on June 11, 1932.
		Fugard later opposed continuance of the boycott, in part because it had little effect on the laws, in part because he saw the increasing necessity for varied imaginative works to be produced in South Africa to curtail the cultural and creative isolation that inhibited a sharing of ideas.
		Fugard’s work, including his seminal collaborations with fl actors, emphasizes the absurdity of life as a condition resulting from human power structures (most frequently apartheid in South Africa), not as the condition of life itself.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1651 (3172 words)

	TheatreForum: Athol Fugard
		Athol Fugard is a playwright who writes for his time, and mines the memory of history.
		Fugard dedicated this play to her and to Katrina and Dudu, cherished housekeepers and friends of the family who lived in the Karoo.
		Athol is simply one of the world’s great theatre artists, a master at the height of his powers, and as is so often the case with his work, Sorrows and Rejoicings feels like a classic — moving, honest and full of revelations for us all.
	www-theatre.ucsd.edu /TF/fugard.html (5688 words)

	Athol Fugard's People Are Living There
		Fugard with "Master Harold"...and the boys, directed the play's national tour with James Earl Jones, a regional production starring John Amos, and co-directed the play's South African premiere at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.
		Fugard in the premiere of A Place with The Pigs (Yale Repertory) and has appeared in theatres around the country.
		She is honored to be a part of Suzanne Shepherd's wonderful imagination, and Athol Fugard's beautiful words.
	www.peoplearelivingthere.com /bios.htm (910 words)

	Biographies of Special South Africans - Athol Fugard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fugard says "[my] real territory as a dramatist is the world of secrets with their powerful effect on human behaviour and the trauma of their revelation.
		Fugard started working in the late 1950´s with a group of actors in Johannesburg, including Zakes Mokae, who were influenced by Strasberg´s method acting.
		In the early 1960´s Fugard returned to Port Elizabeth and worked with The Serpent Players (their first performance was in the former snake pit of a zoo, hence the name).
	zar.co.za /athol.htm (606 words)

	Drama: Athol Fugard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This broadcast of an in-depth interview with Fugard is maintained by Indiana University.
		In this interview Fugard questions the effect apartheid had on his writing and development and explains why, with the transition of power in South Africa, it was important to write his latest play, Valley Song.
		Fugard's attacks on apartheid brought him into conflict with the South African government.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/fugard.htm (383 words)

	Athol Fugard Biography / Biography of Athol Fugard Biography
		Athol Fugard (born 1932) is a South African playwright known for his subtle, poignant descriptions of the racial problems in his country.
		Athol Fugard was born on June 11, 1932, in Middelburgh, a small village in the Karroo district in South Africa, of an English-speaking father and an Afrikaner mother.
		When he was three years old the family moved to Port Elizabeth, an industrial city on the Indian Ocean coast where Fugard was to spend, off and on, most of his life, and where he was to set most of his plays.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-athol-fugard (248 words)

	Master Harold...and the Boys - Athol Fugard
		South Africa's great playwright Athol Fugard touches the heart, inspires with lyric beauty, and punches in the guts with soul-wrenching drama in Master Harold...and the Boys.
		Fugard's play is rooted in those times, but the enduring issues it treats--the need for self-respect and compassion for others in misfortune--transcend time and give his play a universality of undiminshed power.
		The story concerns a young, white South African boy (Master Harold, or Hally as he is called--the same nickname Fugard had in his youth) and his relationship to two fl servants (the boys--Sam and Willie).
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/MasterHarold.htm (642 words)

	Exits and Entrances - Athol Fugard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fugard is now 72 years old and in Exits and Entrances he is recalling this relationship with the older man with fondness for his own youth and foreshadowings of his own old age and death.
		This is the playwright as thoughtful observer of his country’s disastrous policies without the anger one would imagine would drive someone to write as Fugard has of the injustices of apartheid and the squalor he has witnessed.
		The theater is my real home.” Fugard expresses his own discomfort when a play is being performed in front of reviewers who are scribbling madly in their notebooks and not feeling the drama before them.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater6/Exits.htm (596 words)

	Athol Fugard's Blood Knot
		Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot (1961) is a play about two brothers, who live in a one-room shack in a crumbling section of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
		When the play was first performed, in 1961 in Johannesburg, with Athol Fugard as Morris and Zakes Mokae as Zachariah, the actors were arrested.
		Fugard had to endure having his home raided, and having his phone tapped by South African authorities.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/fugard.html (742 words)

	AllRefer.com - Athol Fugard (South African Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Athol Fugard (Athol Harold Lanigan Fugard)[AtOl´ fyOO´gard, fOO–] Pronunciation Key, 1932–;, South African playwright, actor, and director.
		In 1965 he became director of the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth; in 1972 he was a founder of Cape Town's Space Experimental Theatre.
		One of the first white playwrights to collaborate with fl actors and workers, Fugard writes of the frustrations of life in contemporary South Africa and of overcoming the psychological barriers created by apartheid.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Fugard-A.html (311 words)

	Fugard, Athol on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		FUGARD, ATHOL [Fugard, Athol] (Athol Harold Lanigan Fugard), 1932-, South African playwright, actor, and director.
		Fugard as director: an interview with the cast of 'Boesman and Lena.' (Athol Fugard Issue) (Interview)
		Playwright Athol FUGARD, his wife Sheila, and their daughter Sheila.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Fugard-A1.asp (420 words)

	Athol Fugard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Athol Fugard was born in Middelburg, South Africa in 1932.
		Like Tennessee Williams, Fugard creates characters with strengths and weaknesses which make them unable to fit into what society requires.
		Fugard's plays have been regularly premiered in fringe theatres in South Africa (non-segregated), London (The Royal Court Theatre) and New York.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /sa/fugard/bio1.html (155 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: A tribute for Athol Fugard at sixty. (Athol Fugard Issue)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Athol Fugard's plays evolved from the personal expression of social grievances to humanistic masterpieces reflecting a reverence for life.
		Fugard attributes the humanism in his plays to his mother's world view.
		For the record, Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard was born in Middelburg, Cape Province, on 11 June 1932.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:16087666&refid=holomed_1 (203 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Athol Fugard
		Athol Fugard is widely recognised as one of the most important living dramatists, a total man of the theatre, whose work - individually and in collaboration with his fl South African colleagues - has demonstrated the potential of art to bear witness to some of the most extreme events of our times.
		Fugard is shown to have created a uniquely powerful and influential cultural form, as a result of his driving concern to acknowledge the doubts and aspirations, the pain and suffering of the poor and disinherited.
		Issues of protest and survival, difference and identity, place and memory are discussed as they arise in his plays, and as they have engaged audiences locally and internationally, often in significantly varied ways.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0746309481 (329 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Athol Fugard
		Education eventually gave way to adventure, however, and Fugard soon abandoned school to hitchhike through Africa and, eventually, sail the world as a deckhand.
		His freshman play No Good Friday earned Fugard notable attention in Johannesburg's Rehearsal Room, and his second, Blood Knot, proved so controversial that the playwright's passport was withdrawn.
		Outside of appearing in many of his own works, Fugard's compelling performances in Gandhi (1982) and The Killing Fields (1984) were a highlight of the politically motivated features.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/22263/bio.jhtml (313 words)

	JOHN BERRY (Director) and ATHOL FUGARD (Playwright)
		In his travels, he discovered the great South African playwright Athol Fugard and subsequently staged his play The Blood Knot, first in London in 1962 and then in New York in 1965.
		Athol Fugard was born June 11, 1932, in a remote village in South Africa.
		In 1958, he moved to Johannesburg where he worked as a court clerk, an experience that made him keenly aware of the injustices of apartheid and served as a source of inspiration for his writings.
	spot.pcc.edu /~mdembrow/berryfugard.htm (832 words)

	Athol Fugard Biography
		Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard was born June 11, 1932 in Middelburg, a small village in the semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa.
		His mother, Elizabeth Magdalena Potgieter Fugard, was an Afrikaner who could trace her ancestry back to the earliest Dutch settlers of 1652.
		His father, Harold David Fugard, was a South African with English and Irish roots.
	www.enotes.com /valley-song/18677 (145 words)

	Athol Fugard
		Fugard, Athol (Athol Harold Lanigan Fugard), 1932–;, South African playwright, actor, and director.
		One of the first white playwrights to collaborate with fl actors and workers, Fugard writes of the frustrations of life in contemporary South Africa and of overcoming the psychological barriers created by
		Athol Fugard - Athol Fugard playwright, actor Born: 6/11/1932 Birthplace: Middleburg, Cape Province, South Africa...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0819826.html (181 words)

	Athol on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Athol manufactures furniture, toys, lumber, textiles, and precision tools.
		Athol smoker killed after igniting oxygen in home.(News)
		PENNSAUKEN, NJ -- Athol, left, and Jane Riley talk to reporters on Sunday, April 13, 2003, about their son, U.S. Army Sgt. James Riley, who was rescued along with other prisoners of war in Iraq.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-A1thol.asp (487 words)

	Used Book Central Search / author: Fugard, Athol
		Fugard, Athol: Near fine in near fine DJ Plays Alfred A. Knopf (1982) Hardcover Bookclub edition.
		Fugard, Athol: Very Good+ in very good+ dj Plays Alfred A. Knopf 1982 1st Edition HC Light shelfwear.
		Fugard, Athol.: Random House New York 79 pp.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,Fugard_Athol.html (430 words)

	Fugard Athol - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Athol Fugard.
		The play is based directly on Fugards own early formative experiences in South African theatre and the affect that the legendary Afrikaans actor André Huguenet had on him in shaping his own vision of theatre.
		It is a play in which the young mans optimism and hope balance the despair and disillusionment of the aging actor.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsF/FugardAthol.htm (811 words)

	Athol Fugard Sounds The Alarm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		t's a very good thing that Athol took such fast decisive action," said Emily Mann, the day after South African playwright Athol Fugard withdrew the play that was to have opened the Manhattan Theater Club's (MTC) 1998-'99 season in New York.
		Fugard took action on Tuesday, May 26, two days after the play in question, "The Captain's Tiger," ended its American premiere run at McCarter Theater.
		Fugard's protest, and a petition drive by New York's most esteemed playwrights, led by Tony Kushner and Craig Lucas, proved effective.
	www.princetoninfo.com /199806/80603p02.html (573 words)

	Athol Fugard in Pittsburgh
		Athol Fugard has been well received in America, where he joined the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2001.
		My Africa!" overlapped with City's "The Road to Mecca" and the Fugard franchise was passed -- now City has staged four Fugard plays, as well.
		Fugard is an actor, too, and has been seen here in several films, among them "Gandhi" and "The Killing Fields."
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20030117fugardside0117fnp6.asp (251 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Athol Fugard
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		Murray, Monsignor Athol: Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
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	encarta.msn.com /Athol_Fugard.html (72 words)

	LookSmart Jr High - Twentieth Century Literature: Winter 1993
		Encounters with Fugard: native of the Karoo - Athol Fugard Issue
		The artist as an outcast and a mother in 'The Road to Mecca.' - Athol Fugard Issue
		Fugard as director: an interview with the cast of 'Boesman and Lena.' - Athol Fugard Issue - Interview
	www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n4_v39 (286 words)

	Fugard
		In 1965 he became director of the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth; in 1972 he was a founder of Cape Town's pace Experimental Theatre.
		Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard, Stephen R. Mandell (Editor), Laurie G. Kirszner (Editor)
		Papers of South African Playwright Athol Fugard Come to Lilly Library
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/AfricanLit/Fugard/Fugard.htm (462 words)

	Athol Fugard: "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys
		During most of the last four decades, Athol Fugard has dedicated his art to fighting apartheid, remarkably keeping together an all-fl theater troupe in extremely difficult conditions and appearing in many of his own plays as often unsympathetic white characters.
		Many of his plays were banned in his homeland, and were premiered instead at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
		It is not clear whether it is Willie's or Fugard's memory that is at fault in remembering a longer fight.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/anglophone/fugard.html (1007 words)

	much ado - Athol Fugard's drama, Master Harold
		Fugard was torn between his mother, who was
		tensions that Athol Fugard grew up facing in South Africa.
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