Alternate title: Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard
Athol Fugard, in full Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard (born June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa), South African dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the apartheid period.
Fugard’s earliest plays were No-Good Friday and Nongogo (both published in Dimetos and Two Early Plays, 1977), but it was The Blood Knot (1963), produced for stage (1961) and television (1967) in both London and New York City, that established his reputation. The Blood Knot, dealing with brothers who fall on opposite sides of the racial colour line, was the first in a sequence Fugard called “The Family Trilogy.” The series continued with Hello and Goodbye (1965) and Boesman and Lena (1969) and was later published under the title Three Port Elizabeth Plays (1974). Boesman and Lena, filmed in 1973 with Fugard as Boesman, played to a wider audience than any previous South African play; another film adaptation was released in 2000.
Fugard went to the University of Cape Town but dropped out just before the exams
to hitchhike through Africa. He then was the only white seaman on a merchant ship
in the Far East before returning to Africa and moving to Johannesburg in 1958. There
he worked as a court clerk, an experience that made him keenly aware of the
injustices of apartheid, the theme of many of his plays. In the same year, he
organized a multiracial theatre for which he wrote, directed, and acted.
Fugard went to the University of Cape Town but dropped out just before the exams
to hitchhike through Africa. He then was the only white seaman on a merchant ship
in the Far East before returning to Africa and moving to Johannesburg in 1958. There
he worked as a court clerk, an experience that made him keenly aware of the
injustices of apartheid, the theme of many of his plays. In the same year, he
organized a multiracial theatre for which he wrote, directed, and acted.
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