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Fugard

American

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

noun

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

Fugard British

/ ˈfuːɡɑːd /

noun

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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McCraney has a way of drawing the best from actors in tight combustible spaces and Mann has a long history with Fugard.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Fugard lets his scholastic streak drive a good deal of the conversation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 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

Time and again it was the reality of what Fugard called “human desperation” that inflamed his imagination.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

“We felt that the play was far too dangerous for us to go public with it; there was the problem of mixed audiences,” Fugard recounted in the Paris Review.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

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