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Athol Fugard

From early on there were two things that filled my life – music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

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Athol Fugard

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you’ve to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

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Athol Fugard

I’ve had one experience of writer’s block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

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Athol Fugard

My essential identity is that of a writer.

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Athol Fugard

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

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Athol Fugard

For you in the West to hear the phrase ‘All men are created equal’ is to draw a yawn. For us, it’s a miracle. We’re starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

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Athol Fugard

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

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Athol Fugard

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy… and I believed that I didn’t really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

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Athol Fugard

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

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Athol Fugard

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody’s got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

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Athol Fugard

I can’t think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

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Athol Fugard

I’ve always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

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