The tragic personal consequences of life under South Africa's apartheid laws are treated with honesty and deep compassion in these three landmark plays written and premiered in the early seventies. World-renowned dramatist Athol Fugard, along with his actor/collaborators John Kani and Winston Ntshona, has explored the painful particulars of his native land and created works with universal implications—plays that carry within them ringing cries for social and political change without ever uttering a word of political rhetoric. - Sizwe Bansi is Dead reveals the perversities of human identity in a country where a man is equal to his passbook. - The Island celebrates the strength of man's connection to man, even within the dehumanizing confines of a prison cell on Robben Island. - Statements After an Arrest Under the Immortality Act depicts the shattering of two lives under the harsh glare of South Africa's miscegenation laws. Crack cheat happens trainers. All three works, developed and launched at The Space in Cape Town, have since been widely produced in the U.S.
Statements PDF Book by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona 1993 ePub Free Download. -The Island celebrates the strength of man's.
And abroad, and remain as urgent today as they were almost forty years ago. There are three Athol Fugard plays here.
Sizwe Bansi is Dead is amazing. I saw it performed at the BAM. The performance was really good - although a little slow at times.
Reading it after having seen it was amazing. It is such a powerful play. I read The Island in undergrad and re-read it recently.
It is an intense play - and the tie in to Antigone is great. The weakest of the three is Statements.
Since I don't have any history with this one, maybe I just need to read it again to really get it. But first time through, it was only okay. In general, these works show the power of Apartheid South Africa art. It's a powerful play, but the sustained nudity still bothers me - though not as much now as in the old days, and it's less assaultive on the page than on the stage.
I'd forgotten that Ben Kingsley created the role of MAN in STATEMENTS. He played opposite Yvonne Bryceland, whom I never got to see on stage. Haven't re-read the other two plays in this collection yet.
I remember seeing SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD in NY in 1968. It was powerful, though it needed a bit of pruning. THE ISLAND is a fabulous play. I look forward to re-reading it.
Drawboard pdf cracking the code. The Island (1973) Athol Fugard A Quick Rundown of The Island - The Island is a Fugard play that resorts to the Classics to protest Apartheid. - It takes place in four scenes, opening with a lengthy mimed sequence in which John and Winston, two cell mates in prison on Robben Island, carry out one of the totally pointless and exhausting tasks designed by warders to break the spirit of political prisoners. - Winston has been sentenced to prison for life because he burned his passbook in front of a police station. - John has been imprisoned for belonging to a banned organization. - The story traces the relationship of these two men. Winston is the active rebel, - and John, the intellectual, is trying to persuade him to play Antigone in a condensed - two-character version of Sophocles’ play.
- It is to be a prison “concert” for their fellow prisoners and the guards. - However, Winston rebels at playing Antigone. He doesn’t want the other prisoners to laugh at him for being dressed as a woman, wearing a mop for a wig, false “titties,” and a necklace made of salvaged nails. He protests, “I’m a man, not a bloody woman. Shit man, you want me to go out there tomorrow night and make a bloody fool of myself?” (p.
- John finally convinces him to cooperate by putting the dress on himself and saying, “ behind all this rubbish is me, and you know it’s me. You think those bastards out there won’t know it’s you? Yes, they’ll laugh. But who cares about that as long as they laugh in the beginning and listen at the end.