#athol fugard

[do-you-know-this-play]

#“master harold” #“master harold”… and the boys #athol fugard #theatre #theater #plays #tumblr polls

[conceptalbum]

see the play.

#the road to mecca #athol fugard #timothy near #theater #play #wendy vanden heuvel #caspar newbolt #version industries

[rnirrorball]

athol fugard, some of those bodies have faded and gone but these hands remember.

#athol fugard

[sondheims-hat]

1984: Athol Fugard, Jessica Tandy, Sondheim.

#sondheim #athol fugard #jessica tandy

[twisted-tales-told]

You know when you find a book, and everyone in it is just like: oh yeah, those to? Best friends. Gal Pals. Besties.

The two gals in question: "You're more important to me than anyone"

"no man will measure up to the connection We have"

Direct Quote:

"Nobody before you, or since, has done that to me. [...] You see, when I lit the candles, you were going to see all of me. I don't mean my face, or the clothes I was wearing--I mean the real me, because that's what this room is...and I desperately oh, so desperately, wanted you to like what you saw."

#arik is shit posting #the road to mecca by athol fugard

[madamlaydebug]

Happy 77th Birthday to Danny Glover.

Born July 22, 1946, He is an actor and film director. He is widely known for his lead role as Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series. He also had leading roles in his films included The Color Purple, To Sleep with Anger, Predator 2, Angels in the Outfield, and Operation Dumbo Drop.

Glover has prominent supporting roles in Silverado, Witness, A Rage in Harlem, Dreamgirls, Shooter, Death at a Funeral, Beyond the Lights, Sorry to Bother You, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Dead Don't Die, Lonesome Dove and Jumanji: The Next Level.

An Actor with a Cause

Daniel Lebern “Danny” Glover is an African American actor, film director and political activist. Glover is well known for his roles as Detective Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series and Mr. Albert Johnson in The Color Purple. A versatile actor on screen, stage and television, Danny Glover has also become known for his community activism and philanthropic work. In March 1998 he was appointed a United Nations goodwill ambassador. For more than 30 years, Glover has been trying to make a biopic about Toussaint Louverture, who led a successful rebellion in the 18th century.

Glover was born on July 22, 1946 in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover. His parents were postal workers, active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He attended George Washington High School in San Francisco, and the San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the late 1960s, without graduating. SFSU later awarded him an honorary degree. While attending SFSU, Glover was a member of the Black Students Union, which, along with the Third World Liberation Front and the American Federation of Teachers, collaborated in a five-month student-led strike to establish a Department of Black Studies. The strike was the longest student walkout in U.S. history. It helped create not only the first Department of Black Studies but also the first School of Ethnic Studies in the United States.

Glover trained at the Black Actors’ Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater. He made his Broadway debut in Athol Fugard’s production Master Harold…and the Boys, which led to his first leading role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, which was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. The following year, Glover starred in two more Best Picture nominees: Peter Weir’s Witnessand Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple. In 1987, Glover partnered with Mel Gibson in the first Lethal Weaponfilm and went on to star in three hugely successfulLethal Weapon sequels.

In 1994 he made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override. Also in 1994, Glover and actor Ben Guillory formed the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by and about Black people. During his career, he has made several cameos, appearing, for example, in the Michael Jackson video “Liberian Girl” of 1987. Glover earned top billing for the first time in Predator 2, the sequel to the sci-fi action film Predator. That same year he starred in Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger, for which which he executive produced and for which he won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor. On the small screen, Glover won an Image Award and a Cable ACE Award and earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the title role of the HBO movie Mandela. He has also received Emmy nominations for his work in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove and the telefilm Freedom Song. As a director, he earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for Showtime’s Just a Dream.

Glover has had a variety of film, stage, and television roles, but as also gained respect for his wide-reaching community activism and philanthropic efforts, with a particular emphasis on advocacy for economic justice, and access to health care and education programs in the United States and Africa. For these efforts, Glover received a 2006 DGA Honor. Internationally, Glover has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program from 1998-2004, focusing on issues of poverty, disease, and economic development in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and serves as UNICEF Ambassador.

In 2005, Glover co-founded Louverture Films dedicated to the development and production of films of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity. For more than 30 years, Glover has been trying to make a film biography of Toussaint Louverture for his directorial debut. According to Glover, the film lacked ‘whyte heroes’, and hence whyte producers refuse to financially support the project unless the lead is surrounded by fictionalized historically inaccurate whyte heroes. In May 2006, the film had included cast members Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Roger Guenveur Smith, Mos Def, Isaach de Bankolé, and Richard Bohringer. Production, estimated to cost $30 million, was planned to begin in Poland, filming from late 2006 into early 2007. In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who is a prominent U.S. supporter of Chávez. The contribution annoyed some Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded other homegrown films and that Glover’s film was not even about Venezuela. In April 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover’s film, which is still in planning.

On April 6, 2009, Glover was given a chieftaincy title in Imo State, Nigeria. Glover was given the title Enyioma of Nkwerre, which means A Good Friend in the language of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria.

[thebestoftragedy]

[we are the world playing softly in the distance]

I'm student teaching in a coupled upper-level IB English classes this fall, and I have a couple opportunities to help choose curriculum for the classes. The two things I'm looking for are a really good essayist/essay collection, and a good play. Can be any age, though contemporary/last 50 years is preferred.

For essays the teacher used to do David Sedaris, but he said kids lately really haven't been "getting" the humor so much so he wanted to try something else. He's also done David Foster Wallace but found that many students couldn't get past his personal... issues. Currently he's thinking Joan Didion. So, topics/style are flexible here.

For plays, he's done some Athol Fugard... I forget what else. He does want to include something with satirical elements either in the essays or the play, I think they also read Handmaid's Tale and Fun Home for novel and memoir. Content-wise it's fine for stuff to have some sex/violence/swearing, within kind of a common sense limit of what you would want to discuss with a class of thirty-odd 16- to 18-year-olds.

Anyway! I'm taking recommendations from the hivemind. This is a can't-miss opportunity to potentially guide the education of untold tens of semi-privileged midwestern American teens! Don't miss out! @iirulancorrino @doctorcrusher @jehannewick @invertprivileges @willowrosenberg1997 @effervescentwoman @redactedmatopoeia @thebeeskidneys @privacyworld @animesemplemcpherson @dscgshauntingground @gonegirldiscourse @hieronymouscock @bpdtomwambsgans @meadowsopranostoriamosposter

[angelshimaa]

dream, daydream and parchment >:D for the ask game!

hi hi my love, thank you for asking !!

dream; how long do you sleep on average?

about 6 hours, if i get more than that I just feel drowsy for the rest of the day

daydream; best memory?

hmmm, gonna have to think about this. one of mine is looking through baby photos on the eve of one of my birthdays with my sisters, and just tearing up at how much time has passed

parchment; favorite book?

i don't have a fave fave fave, but i think i'm gonna go with Tsotsi (meaning 'thief' in xhosa) by athol fugard. the prose in it?? beautiful

pretty asks !

#— games ⋆·ʚ⁺

[chthonic-cassandra]

Do you have any favorite modern retellings of Greek myths (any medium)?

Yes! Good question. Here's my idiosyncratic list, keeping modern to 'within the last century':

Performance, all kinds: - Andrei Serban and Liz Swados' Trojan Women, created for La Mama ETC in 1974 and revived many times since then, theater production of my heart always, beside which all others will pale - Martha Graham's Clytemnestra - Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses - Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice - Griselda Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa - Athol Fugard's The Island - Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin's Hadestown

Text: - H.D. Helen in Egypt - Derek Walcott, Omeros - Caitlin Sweet, The Door in the Mountain and The Flame in the Maze - Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls - Gillian Hanscombe, Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue - Katharine Beutner, Alcestis - Samuel Delany, The Einstein Intersection - Rachel Swirsky, "A Memory of Wind" - Donna Jo Napoli, Sirena

Movies: - Medea, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini - Oedipus Rex, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini - That's sort of it. I guess maybe also Black Orpheus? The Cocteau Orpheus trilogy? - and I have a weird fondness for the 2003 Helen of Troy miniseries

#pearlsthatwereeyes #hellenic #recs

[newsstoryoftheweekblog]

NEWS STORY OF THE WEEK 22/4/22 - the Queen’s platinum jubile book list

‘The Big Jubilee Read list

1952-61

The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria) The Hills Were Joyful Together – Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica) In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming (1953, Barbados) My Bones and My Flute – Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana) The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England) The Guide – RK Narayan (1958, India) To Sir, With Love – ER Braithwaite (1959, Guyana) One Moonlit Night – Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales) A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England Sunlight on a Broken Column – Attia Hosain (1961, India)

1962-71

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (1962, England) The Interrogation – JMG Le Clézio (1963, France/Mauritius) The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark (1963, Scotland) Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe (1964, Nigeria) Death of a Naturalist – Seamus Heaney (1966, Northern Ireland) Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (1966, Dominica/Wales) A Grain of Wheat – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1967, Kenya) Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay (1967, Australia) The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born – Ayi Kwei Armah (1968, Ghana) When Rain Clouds Gather – Bessie Head (1968, Botswana/South Africa)

1972-81

The Nowhere Man – Kamala Markandaya (1972, India) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré (1974, England) The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia) The Crow Eaters – Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan) The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (1978, England) Who Do You think You Are? – Alice Munro (1978, Canada) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (1979, England) Tsotsi – Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa) Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai (1980, India) Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)

1982-91

Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia) Beka Lamb – Zee Edgell (1982, Belize) The Bone People – Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand) The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada) Summer Lightning – Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica) The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand) The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England) Omeros – Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia) The Adoption Papers – Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland) Cloudstreet – Tim Winton (1991, Australia)

1992-2001

The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka) The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields (1993, Canada) Paradise – Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England) A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada) Salt – Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (1997, India) The Blue Bedspread – Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India) Disgrace – JM Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia) White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2000, England) Life of Pi – Yann Martel (2001, Canada)

2002-11

Small Island – Andrea Levy (2004, England) The Secret River – Kate Grenville (2005, Australia) The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (2005, Australia) Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria) A Golden Age – Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh) The Boat – Nam Le (2008, Australia) Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel (2009, England) The Book of Night Women – Marlon James (2009, Jamaica) The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland) Chinaman – Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)

2012-21

Our Lady of the Nile – Scholastique Mukasonga (2012, Rwanda) The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton (2013, New Zealand) Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue (2016, Cameroon) The Bone Readers – Jacob Ross (2016, Grenada) How We Disappeared – Jing-Jing Lee (2019, Singapore) Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo (2019, England) The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo (2019, Malaysia) Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (2020, Scotland) A Passage North – Anuk Arudpragasam (2021, Sri Lanka) The Promise – Damon Galgut (2021, South Africa)’ (Sherwood, 2022).

REFERENCE

Sherwood, H. (2022) 'The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen’s jubilee book list', The Guardian 18 April [Online]. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/18/the-god-of-small-things-to-shuggie-bain-the-queens-jubilee-book-list (Accessed 21 April 2022).

[do-you-know-this-play]

#sizwe banzi is dead #athol fugard #john kani #winston ntshona #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls

[camillejmakesart]

Irish Classical Theatre Company's Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard

Directed by Aaron Mays

Photography by Mark Duggan

Props Design Camille Jessica

#art #props designer #gallery #theatre #play

[tjpda]

And now it's time for everyone's favorite new segment: COOL STUFF WE FOUND IN THE ARCHIVAL PIECES! This is a new series where we at the archive highlight quirky, interesting items found left inside the texts compiled in the archive. Today we have:

A FOLDOUT PAGE OF ALL THE BOHEMIAN GROVE PLAYS!

These Bohemian Grove plays feature a list in each play of all the prior plays done at the retreat spanning back to the turn of the century. I feel like a better conspiracy theorist than I would be able to find some hidden message in their dramaturgy but it's beyond me. Still interesting to see though!

AN OUT-OF-DATE LIBRARY CARD HOLDER!

In this copy of Charles Ludlam plays, we can see that it was once a book belonging to the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NYPL. Apart from being potential evidence in a library-based crime (calling Phillip Baker Hall), it is of interest because the Mid-Manhattan branch no longer exists! It was renamed the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in 2017 after the titular foundation donated $55 million to the library for renovations.

A TINY CARD HOLDER!!

Inside this copy of Athol Fugard's The Road To Mecca, I found a little identifier sticking out listing the author, name of the play, publisher and copyright date. I figured this was for whoever had archived the play before me but I was more intrigued by the adorable holder/envelope thing that the card was in. It is printed with the (beautiful) logo for GEVA Theatre in Rochester, New York. Aside from being my hometown, this was exciting because GEVA was where I saw many of my first theatrical performances and it holds a very special place in my heart so this was fun to find.

[studiostyles]

Studio Styles is a research, curatorial and creative studio fostering deeper connections to ourselves, our histories, our communities and environment. 

The studio does this by conducting, platforming and funding humanities and arts research projects; and by curating events/exhibitions/spaces for people to come together and have deep-thinking conversations about how we are living our lives and how we can build more resilient communities. 

It is named after the photographer Styles in Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead, a photographer who used his studio to enact and memorialise the dreams and aspirations of his Black community under apartheid South Africa.

from the ‘Fear of God’/Does Your God Sleep? research event  photos by Goodie Cyrus

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[alredered]

Alredered Remembers Athol Fugard, South African anti-apartheid playwright, on his birthday.

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

[kathy0-0]

In our “Female Iconoclasts” series, we feature some of the most radical women artists of our time; those who defied prevailing social and art conventions in order to pursue their passion and contribute their unique vision to society. South African artist Marlene Dumas is considered one of the most significant contemporary artists, whose intense, emotionally charged paintings address existentialist themes and political issues.

About Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa. She studied at an English-language university in the city, and it was there that the artist, who had grown up in a rural area with a family who owned a vineyard, started to learn a great deal not only about her own world, but also about the world beyond. It was 1972 and she had never before taken classes with people of colour besides her own, or spent time with people from different religious backgrounds. At university, she was introduced to avant-garde artists, poets, playwrights and thinkers such as Picasso, Pollock, Lichtenstein, Ginsburg, Bergman, Godard, Resnais, Jean Genet, Athol Fugard and Tennessee Williams. Even though she wasn’t sure she would have the power within herself to do it, she knew she wanted to be an avant-gardist herself. At the end of her degree, she won a bursary to study abroad in the Netherlands for two years. When she left South Africa, she was in a sense relieved: townships were burning, there was a great deal of censorship and the question of Apartheid was complicated to discuss yet impossible to ignore. In the Netherlands, she felt safe and was able to read all the books that had been banned in South Africa.

Marlene Dumas: The Image as BurdenMarlene Dumas: The Image as Burden. Courtesy ARTtube

Marlene Dumas’s Early Works

Early on, Dumas worked in collage as well as paint. She often used newspaper clippings as inspiration or material for her works, and her fascination for these media fragments can be traced back to her life in South Africa, where information about the world came from newspapers and magazines – television was only introduced in South Africa in 1976, four years after Dumas left the country.

Key Themes, Motifs and Approaches

Dumas works within a specific field of tension: her works begin with various source materials, ranging from imagery culled from current media stories to art historical references or even celebrities.

She often zooms in one of these chosen images, appropriating the key qualities and altering and embellishing them to form a new unique identity . She uses many different techniques, even within the same painting. Some parts seem to be rapidly sketched, while other parts of the canvas are stained or almost brushed out, and she tends to work with thinned-down paint and faded colours.

#painting #artist research #contemporary artist #painters #key artist 2