Playland and A Place with the Pigs

Theatre Communications Group
Athol Fugard
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The latest passionate drama from South African Athol Fugard portrays in moving, personal terms the recent conflicts, fears and hopes that have reshaped the political landscape of his native land. "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theatre, I don't know who it could be."--Jack Kroll, Newsweek

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The New Yorker has said of Athol Fugard, "A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize." His major works for the stage include: Blood Knot; "Master Harold"...and the boys; My Children! My Africa!; A Lesson from Aloes; The Road to Mecca; Valley Song; and The Captain's Tiger.