Anthol Fugard

Anthol Fugard
-subsahara -theater
-Was of european afrikanese discent
-used african drama as political tool in his works to drive messages
-born in middleburg S. Africa in 1932
-Full name Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard
-He is part white with English Afrikanese parents
-brougth up in port Elizabeth S. Africa as english as main language
-went to university in Cape town and dropped out before his Final exams
-hitch hike through africa, then became a deck man on a ship and sailed the world
-became engulfed inthe acting after marrying his wife who influenced him, he then wrote many famous plays that sets the seen of africa in the apatheid
-he wrote alot on apartheid and post apartheid
-created characters with sstrengths and weaknesses which make them unable to fit into societies premise, but wrote on dominant women
-likes to write on secretes with powerful effects on human behavior and trauma
-influenced by strasburgs acting method
-first play "no good friday" and first wrote about his contries tormented racial history