Word: yourgrau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solitary figure silhouetted against a reddish-orange dawn marks the beginning of Tug Yourgrau's musical, "The Song of Jacob Zulu." The play, which opened on Broadway in 1993, is an honest attempt to recount the tragedies of a South Africa under the baleful spell of apartheid. Inspired by the murder trial of Jacob Zulu in 1985, the play recounts the violence and pressures of a society fractured by racism...
...Yourgrau, South African born playwright and director, began to write the play after President Nelson Mandela established the Truth Commission to ensure that crimes committed during the apartheid era were to be forgiven but not forgotten. Jacob Zulu was written in this same belief. "The search for truth is balanced with the needs of the present to go forward," says Yourgrau. "Healing begins with true talk...
...Barry Yourgrau--will read from A MonJumps Out of on Airplane. Boston UniversityBookstore Mall, Charlesbank Reading Room, KenmoreSquare, Boston. Firday, Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m. Free.236-7425...
...should commend Yourgrau for his powerful, descriptive voice. What he lacks in coherent thought processes he easily makes up for in the colorful and precise language he uses on every page. The reader can always envision the picture the author tries to sketch, though he seldom understands its meaning...
...Barry Yourgrau's A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane is a work unlike any others. If read with the open mind and rich sense of humor with which it was written, this book will prove to be most enjoyable. Or at least it will provide a break from the monotony of modern life...