Dec 17, 2009

Valley Song | Topics for Further Study

Athol Fugard has spent much of his career as a playwright creating dramas that tell powerful stories about the lives of individual people, while at the same time criticizing South Africa's unjust system of apartheid. Read a Fugard play written before 1990, during the apartheid era, such as Master Harold … and the Boys or My Children! My Africa! How is Fugard's work from this time different from Valley Song, a play written for the “new” South Africa? How are the two plays similar? Consider such things as each...