n/a

Johannesburg

1961

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Simondium, Cape Town

1963

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Play in 7 scenes

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2

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Racial issues exposed through lives of two coloured south African brothers.

Grahamstown

1969

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Buren, Cape Town

1969

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two acts

Play/Drama

2

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Poor, wandering South African black couple, meet old man revealing the true relationship of their marriage.

(British Preniere) Richmond: Orange Tree, UK, EUR >>>

2000

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Published

-

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-

Play/Drama

3

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Fugard looks back to 1952 and a year he spent on a cargo steamer when he was 20, working as a general dogsbody, zigzagging to what was then Ceylon.

Cape Town

1957

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-

-

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One Act

-

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
unavailable for production

Port Elizabeth

1967

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Balkema, Cape Town

1971

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acting exercise

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3

2

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Notes:
also published in The Classics,II,3 (1967),50-68, where serpent Players is named as author

Synopsis:
five performers on a bare stage invite a 'white' audience to witness them devise a play

Edinburgh

1975

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in "Dimetos and Two Early Plays", Oxford University Press, London

1977

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two acts

Play/Drama

2

2

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
thoughts regarding the position and responsibility of an intellectual in society relate to priorities, the setting is universal but South Africa is not far from the soul

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1979-80

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in "Selected Shorter Plays", WitwatersssrandUniversity press, Johannesburg

1990

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Playlet for improvisation

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1

-

-

Notes:
part of The American Project: a compendium of short plays

Synopsis:
. The moral conflicts and emotional strug-gles of a young, inexperienced, homosexual soldier who goes AWOL to stop his white friend's marriage, only to discover he doesn't have the "soul" of his people

Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh Fringe Festival >>>

2007

Richard Jordan, Martin Platt, David Elliot, Primary Stages, Dasha Epstein, Fountain Theatre In Association With Assembly

Dramatists Play Service, NY

2005

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Play/Drama

2

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-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
the story of a relationship between a young man on the threshold of his career as a playwright and an aging actor who has reached the end of his career on the stage. The play is based directly on Fugards own early formative experiences in South African theatre and the affect that the legendary Afrikaans actor André Huguenet had on him in shaping his own vision of theatre. It is a play in which the young mans optimism and hope balance the despair and disillusionment of the aging actor. The action takes place in a series of scenes set in various dressing rooms during which the confrontation between two starkly differing realities plays out with humor, pathos and dramatic power. As the rave reviews of the premiere in Los Angeles reveal, this is a play that is intensely human and speaks to everyone. But, above all else, this is a play that celebrates theatre and its abiding significance. From the two very different perspectives of the young man and the old actor, EXITS AND ENTRANCES also reflects the search for a theatre of relevance in an oppressive society.

Port Elizabeth

1970

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-

-

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Mime

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-

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
An impoverished essay on hunger in the townships". The search for food implies a search for dignity.

Johannesburg

1965

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Balkema, Cape Town

1966

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Tragedy

1

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Siblings reunion evokes bitter childhood memories and feelings of despair.

Cape Town

1973

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in "Statements", Oxford University Press, London

1974

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Play in 4 scenes

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2

-

-

Notes:
written with John Kani and Winston Ntshona, aka Die Hodoshe Span (Cape Town, 1973)

Synopsis:
two political prisoners in the Robben Island maximum security prison perform lengthy backbreaking mimes

Cape Town

1956

-

-

-

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-

One Act

-

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
unavailable for production

Port Elizabeth

1969

-

-

-

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Short Improvisation

One Act

-

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
unavailable for production

Johannesburg

1978

-

Oxford University Press, London

1981

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-

Play/Drama

2

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
set specifically in 1963 a humane but naïve Afrikaner chooses to wait out apartheid whilst his Anglo-Saxon wife teeters on the brink of insanity and the coloured worker leaves the country on a one way exit ticket

New Haven, Connecticut

1982

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Knopf, New York

1982

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Autobiographical play

-

3

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A young white student moves from childhood innocence to poisonous bigotry.

Cape Town

1973

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in "Selected Shorter Plays", WitwatersssrandUniversity press, Johannesburg

1990

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TV play

-

2

-

-

Notes:
stage adaptation by David Muir

Synopsis:
preparations for the great road race featuring the unique partnership between Moss and Jenkinson

Johannesburg

1989

-

Faber & Faber, London

1990

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-

Play/Drama

2

1

children

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
portrays the debating of values of a humanist education in a context of radical political action

Johannesburg

1958

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in "Dimetos and Two Early Plays", Oxford University Press, London

1977

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Play in 5 scenes

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9

1

-

Notes:
collaboration with the African Music and drama Association

Synopsis:
Period 1950's dealing with the gang protection racket in Johannesburg townships

Johannesburg

1959

-

in "Dimetos and Two Early Plays", Oxford University Press, London

1977

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Play in 3 scenes

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4

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
a jazz honky-tonk bar in Johannesburg in the 1950s where the sheebeen-queen, now affluent, tries to live down her past as a Nongogo or prostitute

Unproduced

-

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in April 'Contrast' 8, pp 57-93, Cape Town

1964

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Camera script

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4

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
a sherry-gang of white drop outs squat in a grand mansion

Cape Town

1971

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in "Theatre One: New South African Drama", Donker, Johannesburg

1978

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experiment in theatre

One Act

1

2

-

Notes:
collaboration with Cape Performing Arts Board Theatre Laboratory

Synopsis:
represents two sets of triangular relationships: Clytemnestra, Orestes and Electra; and the mother and daughter killed by the 60's bomber at Johannesburg station

Glasgow

1968

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Buren, Cape Town

1969

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two acts

Play/Drama

2

2

extra

Notes:
written in 1963

Synopsis:
Jilted landlady organises party for lodgers to prove she can enjoy herself in old age.

Yale Rep Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut

1987

-

Faber & Faber, London

1988

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Personal Parable

-

1

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
provoked by the true story of a 2 World War Soviet Army deserter, Pavel Navvrotsky, who spent forty one years hiding in his own pigsty

Cape Town

1992

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Faber & Faber, London

1992

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Allegory

Play/Drama

2

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A metaphor set to the sad and sour music of apartheid as white man requires black man's help to start car

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1997

Al-Kasaba, Palestine

-

-

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-

Adaptation

-

-

-

Notes:
adaptation by George Ibrahim

Synopsis:

New Haven, Connecticut

1984

-

Faber & Faber, London

1985

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play

Biographical

1

2

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
suggested by the life and work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda who is shunned by the small community as an eccentric

The Space, Cape Town

1972

-

in "Plays and Players", London, November

1973

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play

One Act

3

-

-

Notes:
written with John Kani and Winston Ntshona

Synopsis:
Neil Bartlett's latest version by no means gives us the whole novel, it goes lickety-split for the essentials: the Manichean struggle between good and evil, the nightmarish melodrama, the work's inherent theatricality The Guardian

Tricycle Theatre, London >>>

2002

-

-

-

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-

Play/Drama

-

-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:

Cape Town

1972

-

in "Statements", Oxford University Press, London

1974

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-

Play/Drama

2

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
a love relationship set amidst the South African law of the day prohibiting mixed-race sex

Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1996

-

Faber & Faber, London

1996

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