The Train Driver and Other Plays

The Train Driver and Other Plays
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1559367326

"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.

The Train Driver

The Train Driver
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2010-11-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0571275214

In December 2000, Pumla Lolwana pulled her three children close to her body and stepped in front of a train on the railway tracks between Philippi and Nyanga on the Cape Flats, South Africa. This true story demanded Athol Fugard's attention and compelled him to write The Train Driver; a beautiful and haunting play of redemptive power. The Train Driver received its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2010. 'Brave, confrontational and tender . . . Essential theatre viewing.' Sunday Times, South Africa

My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition)

My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition)
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 97
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1559366915

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

People are Living There

People are Living There
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1970
Genre: South African drama (English)
ISBN: 9780573614378

Boesman and Lena

Boesman and Lena
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated
Total Pages: 61
Release: 1971
Genre: Blacks
ISBN: 9780573606205

Two Black scavengers emerge from the underbrush loaded with their total possessions: the makings of a shack and a battery of pots and pans, but nothing to cook in them.

Thomas Gets a Snowplow (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas Gets a Snowplow (Thomas & Friends)
Author: Rev. W. Awdry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375984135

Winter is coming and Thomas, being a small engine, needs to put on his snowplow. Thomas hates his snowplow; he thinks it makes him look funny, and when he has it on, the other, bigger engines tease him. But Thomas saves the day when a big storm comes up and Toby is stuck on his branch line. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Blood Knot

Blood Knot
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1989
Genre: Brothers
ISBN: 9780573640032

Playland

Playland
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573694776

Plays Well with Others

Plays Well with Others
Author: Allan Gurganus
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1999-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375702032

With great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions. Through his eyes we encounter the composer Robert Christian Gustafson, an Iowa preacher's son whose good looks constitute both a mythic draw and a major limitation, and Angelina "Alabama" Byrnes, a failed deb, five feet tall but bristling with outsized talent. These friends shelter each other, promote each other's work, and compete erotically. When tragedy strikes, this circle grows up fast, somehow finding, at the worst of times, the truest sort of family. Funny and heartbreaking, as eventful as Dickens and as atmospheric as one of Fitzgerald's parties, Plays Well with Others combines a fable's high-noon energy with an elegy's evening grace. Allan Gurganus's celebrated new novel is a lovesong to imperishable friendship, a hymn to a brilliant and now-vanished world.

The Road to Mecca

The Road to Mecca
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1989
Genre: Aging
ISBN: 9780573660184