“Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.” WayDifferentFilmAudienceTheaterSubversive Author:Athol Fugard
“What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.” DifferentStoriesGrowsPoorRichChangedMaterialsSouthCancerLandscapeCampsSouth AfricaGet RichSquatters Author:Athol Fugard
“For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.” WritingBelieveDifferentFactsActionFormFeltSituationIssuesSouthSignificantDesperateSouth AfricaWriting LifeApartheidUneasy Author:Athol Fugard