Books by Athol Fugard

Two Black scavengers emerge from the underbrush loaded with their total possessions: the makings of a shack and a battery of pots and pans, but nothing to cook in them.

A classic of South African literature, adapted into a major motion picture, introduced by Jonathan Kaplan

A challenging examination of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa from an iconic playwright.

"With extracts from Athol Fugard's unpublished notebooks"--Page 1 of cover.

Genre: Drama Characters: 2 males, 1 female Scenery: Bare Stage On board the SS Graigaur a young sailor begins to pen his first novel. Assisted by his muse, a portrait of his mother comes to life, and supported by his friend, an illiterate ship's mechanic, he struggles to balance romance and reality. This most personal of Athol Fugard's works is strictly autobiographical; at twenty he abandoned his university education, hitch hiked up Africa and ended up on a tramp steamer in Port Sudan. This play refl ects his attempts to come to terms with the conflicting emotions evoked by memories of his courageous mother and flawed father. "Charming... Admire The Captain's Tiger and the lovely way in which it is told." - The New York Daily News

A play which tells a gentle story of how the generations cope with the end of apartheid in South Africa. A young women wants to leave home to begin to lead her own life, but her grandfather takes this as an insult to his way of life and everything he has worked for.

The four plays in this volume focus on the people and the place Fugard knows most intimately - Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Each explores a tense family situation or relationship against the background of wider suffering and tensions, engaging our sympathies for South Africans of all races.

A collection of five plays (one of them, "The Coat", published for the first time in the UK) drawing on black urban experience, conceived by the author in active collaboration with people from the townships of South Africa.