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...CHILDREN, MY AFRICA. South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the production at La Jolla Playhouse, near San Diego, of his harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...
...CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the La Jolla Playhouse's production, near San Diego, of this harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and of the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...
...plays they are offered are set in nursing homes, dramas so depressing they are instantly filed in the wastebasket. Nursing homes? For these two dynamos? They have done enough of those parts and are not eager for more. Tandy longs for a role in just about anything by Athol Fugard, and Cronyn would like to play Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He is too old, he reluctantly admits, to take on another Shakespearean favorite, Richard...
...Road to Mecca (1987). South Africa's conscience, Athol Fugard, proved his compassion is universal in this Ibsenesque conflict between a fiercely independent artist and a society justly yearning for order...
Members of the cast and crew have unflinchingly remained true to the bleak realities of Fugard's vision, even down to the use of words in African dialect. Boesman and Lena are portrayed at a moment of severe crisis and, admirably, the performance does not shrink away from the appropriate intensity. The audience is rightly exhausted by the play's conclusion and deeply touched as well...