Download or read book The Train Driver and Other Plays written by Athol Fugard and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book The Train Driver written by Athol Fugard and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The Train Driver written by Athol Fugard and published by Samuel French Trade. This book was released on 2012 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roelf, a train driver, has spent weeks searching for the identities of a mother and child he unintentionally killed with his train. After a fruitless journey through shanty towns, he encounters an old gravedigger named Simon who helps the desperate man unburden his conscience. Based on a true story, The Train Driver is a soulful exploration of guilt, suffering, and the powerful bonds that grow between strangers.
Download or read book My Children My Africa TCG Edition written by Athol Fugard and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher.
Download or read book People are Living There written by Athol Fugard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boesman and Lena written by Athol Fugard and published by Samuel French , Incorporated. This book was released on 1971 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Thomas Gets a Snowplow Thomas Friends written by Rev. W. Awdry and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Blood Knot written by Athol Fugard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays Well with Others written by Allan Gurganus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-02-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Incarnations written by Susan Barker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2014 by Doubleday."
Download or read book Jim Button and Luke the Engine driver written by Michael Ende and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their island becomes too crowded, Luke turns his railroad engine into a boat and sets sail for remarkable adventures among people he has never seen before.
Download or read book Exits and Entrances written by Athol Fugard and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare playwright who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.”—The New Yorker This new play about life and art by renowned playwright Athol Fugard is based on his early friendship with actor Andrew Huegonit, considered the finest classical actor of their native South Africa. It is the story of one great artist’s exit from the stage and another’s beginning theater career. Athol Fugard’s work includes Blood Knot, “Master Harold”…and the boys, and My Children! My Africa! He has been widely produced in South Africa and London, on Broadway and across the United States.
Download or read book Coming Home written by Athol Fugard and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Years ago, Veronica Jonkers departed for the big city in the brave New South Africa, set on making her dreams of fame and fortune come true. In COMING HOME, Veronica returns to Nieu Bethesda several years later to die of AIDS, but she is
Download or read book Subway Ride written by Heather Lynne Miller and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down, down, down. Step down below to see the world. A fantastical journey introduces young readers to subway travel. Five children pay the fare, pass through the gates, and zip through the tunnels of subway stations in ten cities around the globe. The trip around the world underscores how travel and cultural connections create community. Back matter includes information about the ten stations mentioned: Atlanta, Cairo, Chicago, London, Mexico City, Moscow, New York City, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.
Download or read book The Township Plays written by Athol Fugard and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1993-08-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'elegant reissue' -Plays International, Summer 2000'They are the wonderfully moving and amusing 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead',... 'The Coat' (previously unavailable), the urgently profound 'The Island'... Anyone interested in freedom or drama should buy this book.' Day by Day
Download or read book No Promises in the Wind DIGEST written by Irene Hunt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man’s struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression. “A powerfully moving story.”—Chicago Daily News In 1932, American's dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing more than dreams. At fifteen years of age, Josh has to make his own way through a country of angry and frightened people. This is the story of a young man’s struggle to find a life for himself in the most turbulent of times.
Download or read book Sorrows and Rejoicings written by Athol Fugard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women meet in a small Karoo village after the funeral of David, the man they both loved. One is white and was his wife. The other is black and the mother of his child. David, who was driven into exile because of his political activism against apartheid, reappears in the searing memories of the women. During a hot afternoon of truth and reconciliation, treaties of love are painfully hammered out. The young confront the old, and what is hope for these individuals is hope for the new South Africa.
