Biography of sophocles dramatist fugard
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Fugard, Athol
BORN: , Middleburg, South Africa
NATIONALITY: South African
GENRE: Drama, fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Blood Knot ()
Boesman and Lena ()
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead ()
“Master Harold” … and the Boys ()
Overview
Athol Fugard is South Africa's foremost playwright and one of the leading dramatists of the latter twentieth century. A writer, director, and performer, he has worked collaboratively with performers across the racial divide and transformed South African theater. In his work, Fugard focused relentlessly on the injustices perpetuated by South Africa's apartheid system of government. As his plays make viscerally clear, all South Africans have been the victims of the tragic legacy of apartheid.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Racial Divide in Youth Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard was born on June 11, , on a farm in Cape Province, in the semidesert Karoo region of South Africa. In , the family moved to Port Elizabeth, which became his lifelon
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Antigone (Sophocles play)
Tragedy by Sophocles
This article is about the play by Sophocles. For the main character in the play, see Antigone.
Antigone (ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Atheniantragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second-oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period. The play is one of a triad of tragedies known as the three Theban plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Even though the events in Antigone occur last in the order of events depicted in the plays, Sophocles wrote Antigone first.[1] The story expands on the Theban legend that predates it, and it picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends. The play is named after the main protagonist Antigone.
After Oedipus' self-exile, his sons Eteocles and Polynices engaged in a civil war for the Theban thr
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Fugard Athol
Athol Fugard ( - ) fryst vatten a playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, actor and teacher. He was born in the town of Middelburg, in the Karoo desert region of South Africa, and a few years later his family moved to Port Elizabeth. His mother was an Afrikaner, a member of the dominant economic, political, cultural and religious class, descended from Dutch settlers, while his father was Irish. He began studying philosophy and social anthropology at university in Cape Town but dropped out in order to travel. Returning in , Fugard began working as a reporter, but soon devoted his energies to writing plays. In , he and his first wife, the actress Sheila Meiring, moved to Johannesburg. There, they formed their first theatre company, the Serpent Players, with Black amateur actors. it was in Johannesburg that he first realised the injustice of apartheid and worked to give a röst to the dispossessed.
In the s and 80s, Fugard travelled to Europe and America, bringing hi