Name: The Train Driver and Other Plays
SKU: 4374556
Price: 394.00 ZAR
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Author: Athol Fugard
ISBN: 9781559363860

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Athol Fugard

Publisher

Theatre Communications Group

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x13.5x1.8 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781559363860

Synopsis "The Train Driver and Other Plays "

For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this.--Athol FugardA dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it.--Sunday IndependentThe Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a chronicler of his native South Africa's apartheid past, directed its premiere at the newly opened Fugard Theater in one of Cape Town's most politically contentious areas. This seminal work was inspired by the true story of a mother who, with her three children, committed suicide on the train tracks in Cape Town. The two-person drama unfolds between the train's engineer and the grave digger who buries the ones without names. This edition also includes Coming Home, Fugard's first work addressing AIDS in South Africa, and Have You Seen Us? his first play set in America, about a South African transplanted to San Diego, where the playwright currently resides.Athol Fugard's works includes Blood Knot, Master Harold. . .and the Boys, Boesman and Lena, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and My Children! My Africa! He has been widely produced in South Africa, London, on Broadway, and across the United States.

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Athol Fugard (1932, South Africa) is one of the most important playwrights in contemporary literature. Born in an apartheid-marked South Africa, his works address themes of oppression, resistance, and the social struggles of the country. His career began in the 1950s, and he stood out for using theater as a platform for political and social denunciation.

Among his most famous works are "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" (1972), "The Island" (1973), and "Master Harold... and the Boys" (1982), which explore the relationships between people of different races in a context of segregation and discrimination. His style is known for its raw realism and focus on universal human conflicts.

Throughout his career, Fugard received numerous awards, including the UNESCO International Theatre Prize and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. His work has had a significant impact on global theater and continues to be a benchmark for cultural resistance against oppression.

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