The Washington Post, July 20th, 1990
Athol Fugard asks a lot of the actors who perform his work. Not only must they delve into the emotional and psychological complexities of living under South Africa's apartheid system, but they must-at least in his one-act "Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act"-strip themselves naked. Literally. Until 1985, it was illegal for South Africans of different races to have sexual relations (not unlike anti-miscegenation laws that were enacted in the American South). Fugard's play, currently part of a double bill produced by the Potomac Theatre Project, takes off from this fact to exami...
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