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FUGARD PLAY SERIES This play series includes some of Fugard’s most popular dramas. Suitable for learners from Grades 10 to 12, they have been approved and prescribed for the classroom in several provinces.
‘Master Harold’ … and the boys
‘Master Harold’ was based on a real incident in Fugard’s boyhood that haunted him for years. The play won a Drama Desk Award in the USA and was rated by the Royal National Theatre in London as one of the most significant plays of the 20th century.
Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 Boesman and Lena
Set on the Swartkops mudflats, just outside Port Elizabeth, the play deals with two squatters. They are on a journey with all their worldly possessions after their shack was bulldozed.
Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 978 0 19 570331 3 Port Elizabeth Plays OUP UK
‘“Master Harold” … and the Boys’, ‘The Blood Knot’, ‘Hello and Goodbye’, and ‘Boesman and Lena’ are in this selection from Fugard’s best work.
Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 Hello and Goodbye
First performed in 1965, the play rises above political issues to explore themes of personal freedom and self-realisation.
Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 The Blood Knot
This play about two brothers who share a one-room shack in Port Elizabeth was Fugard’s first international success. When it appeared on British television in 1967, the play was banned in South Africa, and Fugard’s passport was withdrawn for four years.
Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 978 0 19 570759 5 978 0 19 571099 1 978 0 19 282529 2 978 0 19 570874 5
CONTEMPORARY PLAYSCRIPTS FROM OXFORD
Cissie: the playscript N. Davids Nadia Davids’ moving play Cissie evokes the life of an extraordinary woman – Cape Town activist, Cissie Gool. From the early days of her girlhood to her death in 1963, the play allows us to glimpse into her world: the dynamic social and political home of her childhood,
the heady years of her public speaking and marriage, and her difficulty in trying to live a free life under the traumatic shadow of colonialism and apartheid. Through monologue, shadow theatre and poetry, the lost world of Cissie’s home, District Six, is recreated.
Suitable for Grades 9 to 11 978 0 19 5990140
At Her Feet: the playscript N. Davids Offering an intriguing insight into the world of Islam from a woman’s point of view, At Her Feet gives voice to six Muslim women of different ages and their response to events
including an honour-killing in Jordan and everyday life in Cape Town. They examine their experiences as Muslim women both with respect to the behaviour of other practitioners of Islam, as well as at the hands of people outside of their faith. At Her Feet played to full houses around South Africa and garnered its author international acclaim.
Suitable for Grades 9 to 11 e-pub
978 0 19 599254 0 978 0 19 040415 4
People are living there
Millie is a Port Elizabeth landlady who has split up with her lover. The play is a reflection on the loss of youth, and on how, as we grow older, we find that we have turned into people we no longer recognise.
Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 978 0 19 570332 0 Township Plays OUP UK
Five of Fugard’s most important works including his ‘Sophiatown’ plays, ‘No Good Friday’ and ‘Nongogo’, and his ‘New Brighton’ plays, ‘The Coat’, ‘Sizwe Bansi is Dead’, and ‘The Island’.
Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 978 0 19 282925 2
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