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Fugard masters the code - Athol Fugard Issue
Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1993 by Gerald Weales
Once again I seem to have ended a consideration of Fugard on a declining note. It is not a last word by any means. "My essential sense of myself is that of a storyteller," he said at NYU and, after contemplating what Miss Helen's dilemma would mean to him, he concluded, "I hope to die in harness (384, 387, this volume)." As Frank Morgan says in The Wizard of Oz, "That is a horse of another color."
NOTES
1 It is apparently a favorite remark of Fugard's. See for instance Gussow 66, in which the poisonous snake has become more specifically a "critical asp."
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2 The entry is not exactly the same in Notebooks 165. Notebook entries vary according to when and how Fugard 'wants to use them. In the introduction to A Lesson from Aloes, for instance, excerpts are identified as 1961 although they appear in Notebooks for 1961, 1965, and 1967.
3 I have not seen the films, although they played briefly in New York in 1984. My remarks are based on the heavily illustrated scripts published by Donker of Johannesburg (the photographs in the Donker edition of Marigolds are credited to Mark Wilby). All citations to these screenplays, however, are to the more accessible one-volume edition recently published by Theatre Communications Group.
4 The quotation comes from Almeda K. Rae's unpublished M.A. thesis, "Dialogue and Characterization in the Plays of Athol Fugard" (U of Pretoria, 1971), excerpted in Gray AF 51.
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