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Athol Fugard, a white South African playwright/actor/director of international renown, has worked toward the establishment of an integrated, multiracial theater not associated with the white South African establishment. In his plays, Fugard has made racism and the ravaging effects of racial tension come alive as he presents aspects of these problems on a personal level. Fugard studied anthropology and philosophy in college, hitchhiked through Africa, and worked on a tramp steamer before marrying an actress and beginning his first theater company in 1956. 'Master Harold..and the Boys' was premiered at Yale Repertory Theater in 1982--it was banned for performance in South Africa as being too inflammatory. The play, containing autobiographical elements, explores the relationship between Hally, a white 17-year-old whose mother owns a teashop, and Sam and Willie, black men in their forties who work in the shop. As the play nears its climax, Hally demands that Sam call him 'Master Harold,' highlighting the fact that relationships between Whites and Blacks in South Africa are those between master and servant. 'My Children! My Africa!' was produced in 1989 and deals with an older black teacher who hopes that violence can be avoided and change brought about by working within the system. Fugard's theater presents the universal themes of friendship, family, and the need for intimacy in a South African context. His plays offer examples of interracial relationships in which the individuals find common ground. (Contains 18 references.) (NKA)
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Cellmates John and Winston are incarcerated in a prison on an un-named island. They spend their days undertaking back-breaking hard labor outside in the searing heat before being forced to perform calisthenics, and being made to run whilst shackled. Then they receive a beating. The men become close very quickly; there is something bonding about tending to each other's wounds; a brotherhood develops. They share stories of their lives with each other. They picture days at the beach, and speak of childhood, and happier times.
The men are busy rehearsing for a performance of Sophocles' plan Antigone; John plays the role of Creon Winston plays Antigone. However, rehearsals having been mostly in their own cells, in their prison clothes, the fact that he is playing a woman has not fully dawned on Winston yet. When he tries on his costume he almost pulls out of the play all together; he thinks that the other prisoners will bait him and that he will be humiliated.
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Amidst the preparations for the play, John is summoned to the prison governor's office where he learns that his appeal against his sentence was successful. He is going to be released in three months because his ten year sentence has been commuted to three. Although Winston is happy for his friend, thoughts of home combine with regret and he starts to unravel emotionally. He wonders why he got involved with making a stand against the regime in the first place. Saying it out loud seems to calm him and he vows to endure his sentence.
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Performance time comes quickly; John, playing Creon, sentences Winston, in character as Antigone, to be walled into a cave because she has defied him and instead shown her loyalty to her brother by giving him a proper burial. The play ends with John and Winson running hard, still chained together, whilst sirens go off in the background.
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(26) References to The Island indicate Athol Fugard, Statements (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974). (27) 'Broer' is Afrikaans slang for 'brother.' (28) Laborers from India first arrive in South Africa in the 1860s to work on sugar farms in Natal, constituting a comparatively small but distinct ethnic group. The Island By Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona Directed by James Bohnen January 27 – March 7, 2010. Athol Fugard’s daring drama is set in an unnamed prison based on the one where Nelson Mandela was held. Download full-text PDF Read full-text. Enough not to incur the full wrath of the state. Fugard hardly. Stood with the masses, especially when his ideological view. The Island (1973. Athol Fugard FRSL OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as “South Africa’s greatest playwright.” He is best known for his political plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Oscar-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. Bakugan online mmorpg. Acclaimed as “the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking.