Новинки Атола Фугарда

Academy Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theater’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a seventeen-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle-aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Leon Addison Brown, Keith David, and Bobby Steggert.

Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood, to rediscover himself and his capacity for love.

Turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2006, Tsotsi's raw power and rare humanity show how decency and compassion can survive against the odds.

These three Port Elizabeth plays, which established South African playwright Athol Fugard's international reputation more than twenty years ago, examine with passion and grace close family relationships strained almost unendurably by the harshest of economic and political conditions.

Произведения южноафриканского драматурга идут на сценах многих стран мира. Его искусство проникнуто сочувствием людям, прозябающим в нищете и бесправии, протестом против бесчеловечной системы апартеида. В предлагаемых читателю пьесах "Кровные узы", "Здесь живут люди", "Учиться у алоэ" автор показывает, как расовое неравенство, узаконенное в ЮАР, разрушает человеческие отношения, любовь, порождает отчужденность и вражду. Философско-психологическая драма "Диметос" развенчивает жизненную позицию талантливой личности, искусственно оградившей себя от людей, их горестей и надежд.