Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the ...

Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986.

The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...

South African playwright Athol Fugard, renowned for his works during apartheid, passed away at 92. His plays, including ...

The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As a playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard defied South Africa's apartheid system, and the government punished him for it. He died Saturday at the age of 92.

Athol Fugard, an acclaimed South African playwright whose works explored the brutality of his country’s apartheid regime, using anger and empathy to protest the dehumanizing effects of racial ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “‘Master Harold’… and the Boys” to show how the racist system ...

When playwright Athol Fugard’s first play to receive international recognition, The Blood Knot, played in London in the early 1960s, it was met with disfavour by the reigning critic of the day ...