The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout Theatre's revival of this searing coming of age story, considered by many to be Fugard's masterpiece. A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two black waiters who work in his mother's tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist alcoholic father is on his way home from the hospital. An ensuing rage unwittingly triggers his inevitable passage into the culture of hatred fostered by apartheid.
"One of those...
Drama / 3m (1 white, 2 black) / Int.
The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout T...
Working in active collaboration with the people of the South African townships, Athol Fugard's plays are portraits of the black urban experience. Edited with an introduction, notes and a glossary by Dennis Walder, a leading critic of South African literature, this book collects his five township plays: Nongogo, No-Good Friday, Sizure Bansi is Dead, The Island and The Coat, the latter of which has never been published in Britain before.
Working in active collaboration with the people of the South African townships, Athol Fugard's plays are portraits of the black urban experience. Edit...
