Most people cannot see reality as it truly is from their eyes. In Athol Fugard’s Master Harold… and the Boys, he shows the apartheid between blacks and whites in South Africa. While some of these white people wanted to end apartheid, other people who lived with apartheid for their whole lives do not see the wrongs with it. These people want change, but do not know that they are the issue which is known as a psychological barrier. In the play, Athol Fugard uses Willie who struggles with a psychological
was seen as he’s best play • 1966 Fugard directs his new play The Coat, the first paly also directed by him. • 1969 Boesman and Lena is produced in Grahams town, South Africa, then at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City in 1970. • 1971 The South African government returns Fugard’s passport and he is permitted to leave South Africa for England to direct his Boesman and Lena. • 1972 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (written with John Kani and Winston Ntshona, actors with The Serpent Players) is produced
Athol Fugard Athol Fugard was born on the 11th of June 1932 in Cape Town, to a below average income household. His mother, Elizabeth Magdalena an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a boarding house; his father, Harold, was a disabled former jazz pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot blood. In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth. He attended Marist Brothers College in 1938, thereafter going to university of Cape Town to study philosophy. After his second year at the University
Athol Fugard Athol Fugard was born on the 11th of June 1932 in Middleburg Northern Cape, to a below average income household. His mother, Elizabeth Magdalena an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a boarding house; his father, Harold, was a disabled former jazz pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot blood. In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth. He attended Marist Brothers College in 1938, thereafter going to university of Cape Town to study philosophy. After his second