Buy this book on-line PROGRAMME (Athol FUGARD) : PlaylandThe Market Theatre, 1992
A fine copy in the original pictorial wrappers as issued. Fugard´s first play after apartheid. Starring JOHN KANI, BILL FLYNN, SEAN TAYLOR. On new year's eve 1990 two men meet at an amusement park. Martinus is the watchman. Gideon is the visitor who hangs around Martinus. And the Playland is a form of hell or purgatory where both live with their guilt of murder, the one for passion the other for politics. Gideon repents but is not forgiven, while Martinus is forgiven but does not repent. The play is a parable for South Africa and reconciliation, two sides of a bloody conflict coming together. Fugard said during the writing of Playland "I am in fact at work on a new play at the moment [Playland] and I still find myself terribly intimidated by the reality of blank paper. None of my past experience in writing plays helps me deal with what I describe as ´the inquisition of blank paper´ when I face up to it at the outset of a new work." The character Gideon le Roux is based on Garth, Fugard´s cousin "a man suffering from shellshock...I also understand now why I heard echoes of his unnerving laugh all through the writing of Playland." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of PROGRAMME (Athol FUGARD) : Playland. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, libri rari, livres anciens, livres illustrées and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |