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Sorrows and Rejoicings
Sorrows and Rejoicings
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Author: Athol Fugard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Format: Softcover # of Pages: 96 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 1559362081 ISBN-13: 9781559362085 Cast Size: 3 women, 1 man
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About
the Play:
Sorrows and Rejoicings is a full-length drama by Athol
Fugard. With lyrical grace, one of the world’s greatest
playwrights once again demonstrates the human struggle to transcend
the treacherous injustices of history.
Sorrows and Rejoicings is a political play about the legacy
of apartheid and the future of South Africa. Two women meet in a
small Karoo village after the funeral of David Olivier (pronounced
Dahvid Olifeer in Afrikaan), a political activist, writer and poet,
the man they both loved. One is white and was his wife. The other is
black and the mother of his child. David, who was driven into exile
because of his political activism against apartheid, reappears in the
searing memories of the women. During a hot afternoon of truth and
reconciliation, treaties of love are painfully hammered out. The
young confront the old, and what is hope for these individuals is
hope for the new South Africa.
Sorrows and Rejoicings premiered in 2001 at McCarter
Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.
Cast: 3 women, 1 man
What people say:
"Fugard's most magical,
heartbreaking study of South Africa." — New York
Post
"Eloquent, moving and
piercingly sad, ... Athol Fugard's play is rich in moments of intense
anguish." — The New Yorker
About the Playwright:
Athol Fugard is an internationally acclaimed South African
playwright whose work deals with the political and social upheaval of
the apartheid system in South Africa. He was educated at the
University of Cape Town, and frequently directs and performs in his
plays which are regularly performed in theatres in South Africa,
Great Britain, the United States and around the world. Several of his
plays have been adapted for the screen and his novel Tsotsi was made
into a film that won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film. In 2011 he received a special Tony Award for Lifetime
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