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The apprenticeship years - Athol Fugard Issue
Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1993 by Sheila Fugard
No-Good Friday and Nongogo are now regularly performed in South Africa. The texts are accessible, and the plays easy to mount with simple sets. Schools can stage these plays as well as colleges. These apprenticeship plays are not for New York, or London, where sophisticated audiences demand more. The actors who stage the plays in the townships are similar to our original cast.
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Other Stephen Molois, Gladys Sibisis, and Dan Pohos struggle with the roles. Often these men and women have little schooling. They come from an impoverished, fragmented, and violent society. Yet these plays allow them to find a voice, speak, make theatre. This then is the value to South Africa of the apprenticeship plays. For Athol they were a beginning.
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