Athol Fugard. Un ritratto

Abstract

In this portrait the author sketches the half-century career of the South African playwright Athol Fugard (born in 1932), whose experience is deeply rooted in the political history of that country, between apartheid and post-apartheid era, between repression and liberation. From Fugard’s beginnings, still under the influence of Naturalism, to the plays of the Sixties and Seventies (the masterpiece is probably Siwze Bansi is Dead, 1972), partly inspired to Beckett, until the late production, where a gloomy inspiration seems to emerge, the paper evokes life and work of one of the most talented playwrights (he is novelist and actor too) of his generation, who in Italy is perhaps still underestimated.