Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded ...

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.

The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the ...

South African playwright Athol Fugard, renowned for his works during apartheid, passed away at 92. His plays, including ...

A few minutes later Athol Fugard followed on his bicycle ... That meant the black townships of apartheid South Africa: first Sophiatown in Johannesburg (soon demolished for white housing) and ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold’... and the Boys” to ...