'On the threshold of the future?': Interview with Athol Fugard

Walder, Dennis (2004). 'On the threshold of the future?': Interview with Athol Fugard. In: Banham, Martin; Gibbs, James; Osofisan, Femi and Kerr, David eds. African Theatre: Southern Africa. Oxford: James Currey, pp. 68–78.

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Abstract

Interview with the playwright Athol Fugard conducted during the UK premiere of his play Sorrows and Rejoicings at the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London, on 24 March 2002. Origins, themes and character sources of play discussed, and refernce made to its predecessor, The Captain's Tiger, an earlier memory play. According the the playwright, the new South Africa is going to need as much vigilance from writers as the old.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	0-85255-597-0, 978-0-85255-597-2
Keywords:	Athol Fugard, Sorrows and Rejoicings, The Captain's Tiger, theatre, memory, new South Africa
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Research Group:	Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
Item ID:	8983
Depositing User:	Dennis Walder
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2007
Last Modified:	06 Aug 2019 08:27
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/8983
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