Dec 22, 2009

Valley Song | Critical Overview

Athol Fugard has always been a multi-talented theatrical artist, often acting in and occasionally directing his own plays. Never before Valley Song, however, did the playwright write so much of his own life into one of his plays, then choose to act two of the parts and direct himself and his co-performer. Valley Song premiered in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August, 1995, with Fugard directing and playing the parts of The Author and Abraam Jonkers, and Esmeralda Bihl portraying Veronica Jonkers. Several months later, in October, 1995, the play opened in the U.S. at the...