My Children! My Africa! is a searing exploration of friendship, identity, and justice set against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa. First staged in 1989, the play remains as urgent and ...

Austin Shakespeare will stage Athol Fugard’s searing and thought-provoking drama My Children! My Africa! at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater on Saturday, November 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 16 ...

Eastbound Theatre will present the winter show of its 30th anniversary season, My Children! My Africa!written by Athol Fugard and directed by Noelle Fair. Eastbound Theatre is Milford’s premiere ...

Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ever playwright, has died. He was 92. According to AP, the South African ...

Athol Fugard’s play “My Children, My Africa” comes to life at the Bud Frank Theater on the campus of East Tennessee State University. It’s the tale of a South African teacher who brings two school ...

My Children! My Africa! may not be South African playwright Athol Fugard’s strongest and most complex work — it’s single-themed, talky and repetitive — but it fully communicates his largeness of ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As a playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard defied South Africa's apartheid system, and the government punished him for it. He died Saturday at the age of 92.

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going to be ...