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What is the best way to live your life? Legendary playwright Athol Fugard asks this ultimate question in this brand new play. When a grandfather, played by Fugard in his first return to the stage since 1997, is surprised by the arrival of his ten-year-old grandson who is playing hooky from school, the two end up spending a memorable afternoon together.
What is the best way to live your life? Legendary playwright Athol Fugard asks this ultimate question in this brand new play. When a grandfather, played by Fugard in his first return to the stage since 1997, is surprised by the arrival of his ten-year-old grandson who is playing hooky from school, the two end up spending a memorable afternoon together.
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Fugard’s Returning To Town
On a Thursday afternoon, world-renowned playwright Athol Fugard sent Gordon Edelstein his new play. Edelstein read the play and called Fugard. “There’s only one actor who can play this part,” said Edelstein to Fugard. Is that any way to talk to one of th from New Haven Independent Read more »
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Long Wharf Theatre unveils next season's lineup, including Tony Award winner August Wilson's 'Fences' (video)
NEW HAVEN — Long Wharf Theatre previewed its 2013-2014 season Monday at a reception at its Stage II, unveiling a lineup that includes “Fences,” its first production of an August Wilson play, with Tony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rash from New Haven Register Read more »
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Geffen Playhouse Revives David Mamet's Classic American Buffalo
If you need an illustration of how much the early writing of Harold Pinter influenced the early writing of David Mamet, you need only check out Randall Arney's staging of Mamet's 1975 American Buffalo at the Geffen Playhouse, which opened last week. It's from LA Weekly Read more »
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'Road to Mecca' portrays story similar to that of Milwaukee-area resident
While Renaissance Theaterworks' new production, Athol Fugard's "The Road to Mecca," is set in distant South Africa, its situation will feel familiar to Milwaukee art lovers: An older woman, living alone, has transformed her home and yard into an art envi from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Read more »
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Aches and Pains
It feels slightly blasphemous to approach South African playwright Athol Fugard and his iconic study in racism Master Harold... and the Boys with anything other than reverence. The play was written in 1982, in the midst of apartheid, and banned from publ from The Stranger Read more »
