(born June 11, 1932, Middleburg, S.Af.) South African playwright, director, and actor. He wrote two plays before The Blood Knot (1963), a penetrating analysis of apartheid, established his international reputation. He resumed the theme in Hello and Goodbye (1965) and Boesman and Lena (1969).
He experimented with an imagist approach to drama in Orestes (1978) and three other works, then returned to more traditionally structured plays. His “Master Harold”&elipsis;and the Boys (1982) and The Road to Mecca (1985) were acclaimed in London and New York City. Subsequent plays include Playland (1992), The Captain's Tiger (1997), and Sorrows and Rejoicings (2002). Fugard acted in the films Marigolds in August (1980) and The Killing Fields (1984).
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