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The Township Plays

No-Good Friday; Nongogo; The Coat; Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island
By Athol Fugard · 1993
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ISBN: 9780192829252, 0192829254
Page count: 236
Published: 5 August 1993
Format: Paperback
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Author: Athol Fugard
Editor: Dennis Walder
Contributor: Dennis Walder
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Athol Fugard is one of the most respected and frequently studied of
living dramatists. Working in active collaboration with the people of
the South African townships, his plays are informed and powerful
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 the five `township plays' -
Nongogo, No-Good Friday, Sizure Bansi is Dead, The Island, and The
Coat - in a single volume for the first time, the latter of which has
never been published in Britain before.
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Antigone
ask
Baas
Bansi
BLACKIE
bloody
boy
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BUNTU
carrying
cell
cloths
coat
comes
don't
door
everything
father
feel
five
forget
Friday
Fugard
give
goes
going
GUY
HAEMON
hand
happened
head
hear
hell
Hey
HIGGINS
Island
It's
JINGI
JOHN
JOHNNY
keep
laugh
LAVRENTI
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letter
listen
live
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lot
MARIE
mean
months
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never
night
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PATRICK
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PINKIE
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Editor: Dennis Walder
Genre: Drama
Subject: Drama / General, Black people -- Drama -- South Africa,
Blacks -- Drama -- South Africa, Blacks -- Drama -- South Africa --
Drama, City and town life -- Drama, City and town life -- Drama --
South Africa, Political plays, Political plays, South African (English),
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Athol Fugard
South African playwright and novelist

Born in Cape Town and educated at Port Elizabeth Technical College

and Cape Town University, Athol Fugard is a leading white South
African playwright. After finishing his education, Fugard worked as a
seaman and journalist before becoming an actor, director, and
playwright. His commitment to the antiapartheid struggle through his
plays and other dramatic productions is as long as it is effective in
portraying the traumas of racial tensions in the lives of both white and
black South Africans. The setting of his plays is contemporary South
Africa, but the bleakness and frustrations of life they present,
especially for those on the fringes of society, raise the plays to the
level of universal human tragedy. Because of their subject, his plays
have sometimes met with official opposition. Blood… more
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