Fugard

American  

[fyoo-gahrd, foo-] / ˈfju gɑrd, ˈfu- /

noun

1. Athol (Harold), born 1932, South African playwright and actor.

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Fugard British  

/ ˈfuːɡɑːd /

noun

1. Athol (ˈæθəl). born 1932, South African dramatist and theatre director. His plays include The Blood-Knot (1961), Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972), Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act (1974), and The Captain's Tiger (1999)

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Fugard

Fugard once told Mann she took more trips to Soweto in a single month than he did in his entire lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Fugard told him, “I can help you tell stories. I don’t know how to make a bomb.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

For Geffen co-stars Beatty and Hatendi, it has been a privilege to work alongside two people who knew Fugard so intimately and understood apartheid South Africa so thoroughly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

An early masterpiece, “Blood Knot” established a paradigm for Fugard, whose plays are distinguished by their small casts, static locations and tinderbox emotions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as ‘The Blood Knot’ and “‘Master Harold” … and the Boys.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

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