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Glover and Kashka Bonjoko gave one performance of "The Island," by the anti-apartheid South African playwright. Athol Fugard, at Paine Hall last night, and will give another tonight...
...Master Harold" . . . and the Boys. To each of his dramas, South Africa's Athol Fugard brings a tormented conscience, a touch of the poet and scalding honesty...
...Henry IV, stated: "Shakespearean history is like beer; some is better than other some, but none is bad. I could sit for hours and listen entranced to such cataloguing as: 'Of prisoners, Hotspur took/Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son/To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,/Of Murray, Angus and Menteith.'" I doubt that there are many who would agree with Tynan, and I'm sure precious few would echo Agate...
...Athol Fugard...
...sometimes cherishes a surrogate father more than his own. But if the boy is white and the man is black, and the locale is South Africa in 1950, a day of reckoning is inevitable. No one knows this better than Athol Fugard, who has probed the corrosive effect of apartheid on his fellow South Africans in eight of his 16 plays, ranging from The Blood Knot to last season's award-winning A Lesson from Aloes. To each of his works, he brings a tormented conscience, a touch of the poet and a scalding honesty...