Valley Song | Essays and Criticism

  • What It Means To Be an Artist

    In this essay, Lane A. Glenn considers Athol Fugard's exploration of what it means to be an artist in Valley Song.

  • Play Paints Picture of Pain: Dreams Emerging from "Valley" of Apartheid

    In the following review of the Washington, D.C. production of Athol Fugard's play Valley Song, Nelson Pressley overviews the play's plotline and calls it a provocative and ‘‘often elusive’’ politically-edged performance, characteristic of Fugard's works.

  • Valley Song (Theater Review)

    In the following review of the New York production of Athol Fugard's play Valley Song, Jack Barbera overviews the play's plotline and examines the various ways in which the playwright is categorized by reviewers and critical essayists.

  • Valley Song (Theater Review)

    In the following review of the production of Athol Fugard's play Valley Song, Robert L. King, in outlining the plotline, writes that he sees the plot as an allegory for Fugard's own writing career, diminishing now as the need for his work decreases.