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"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."— Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."— Newsweek "Athol Fugard can say more with a single line than most playwrights convey in an entire script."— Variety Legendary theatre artist Athol Fugard returns to the stage for the first time in fifteen years in this, his latest work. The Shadow of the Hummingbird tells the story of an ailing man in his eighties and the afternoon spent with his ten year-old grandson. In a charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, Fugard continues to mine the depths of the human spirit with profound empathy and heart. The text of the play includes an introductory Prelude by Paula Fourie with extracts from Fugard’s unpublished notebooks. Athol Fugard has been working in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor for more than fifty years. In 2011, he received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, and he was the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama at Oxford University. His plays include Blood Knot , Boesman and Lena , Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act , Sizwe Banzi Is Dead , 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys , The Road to Mecca , My Children! My Africa! and The Blue Iris .

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"Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre."–Time

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"For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this."—Athol Fugard "A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it."—Sunday Independent The Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a chronicler of his native South Africa's apartheid past, directed its premiere at the newly opened Fugard Theater in one of Cape Town's most politically contentious areas. This seminal work was inspired by the true story of a mother who, with her three children, committed suicide on the train tracks in Cape Town. The two-person drama unfolds between the train's engineer and the grave digger who buries «the ones without names.» This edition also includes Coming Home, Fugard's first work addressing AIDS in South Africa, and Have You Seen Us? his first play set in America, about a South African transplanted to San Diego, where the playwright currently resides. Athol Fugard's works includes Blood Knot, Master Harold. . .and the Boys, Boesman and Lena, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and My Children! My Africa! He has been widely produced in South Africa, London, on Broadway, and across the United States.

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In this remarkable memoir, Athol Fugard, author of The Road to Mecca, A Lesson From Aloes, Master Harold…and the boys, Valley Song and numerous other works for the stage, paints a moving study of his early years in South Africa. Cousins focuses on Fugard's relationship with his two cousins and their impact, which led the author to a lifelong pursuit of a writing career.

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A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow.

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The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his «old-fashioned» black teacher.

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"If there is a more urgent and indispensible playwright in world theatre than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek One of the true contemporary masters of the stage, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written one of his most stunning works. Sorrows and Rejoicings explores the legacy of Apartheid on two women—one white, the other black—who on the surface seem to have little in common except for their love of one man, a white poet who is attached to the Karoo land of South Africa. The drama moves between past and present, reliving the poet's despondent years in exile and his eventual return to a new South Africa. With lyrical grace, Fugard once again demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history.South African playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard is one of the world's leading theatre artists, of whom The New Yorker has said, «A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize on Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.»Also available by Athol Fugard: The Road to Mecca PB $11.95 0-930452-79-8 • USA My Children! My Africa! PB $10.95 1-55936-014-3 o USAStatementsPB $10.95 0-930452-61-5 • USA Blood Knot and Other Plays PB $ 14.95 1-55936-020-8 • USA Valley Song PB $10.95 1-55936-119-0 • USA

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–13th book by Athol Fugard published by TCG -Combined sales of his books top 100,000 copies -One of the world's most produced playwrights

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•major productions across the U.S. •New York premiere scheduled for the Manhattan Theatre Club in January 1999. •the 10th title by Fugard published by TCG • Cousins 1559361322, sold 2400. • This title follows the story in Cousins ; this is an extension of the same story. • Author starts, directs, and writes

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