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A play based on events in Oyo, Nigeria in 1946, exploring the clash between Yoruba tradition and British colonial interference when the king dies and his horseman is expected to commit ritual suicide.

Play about Makak, a charcoal burner who dreams of becoming an African king, exploring colonialism and identity.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest from Caliban's perspective as colonized subject.

A historical play about Kinjeketile Ngwale, the spirit medium who led the Maji Maji uprising against German colonial rule in Tanzania (1905-07), blending oral forms with modern drama to examine resistance, leadership, and sacrifice.

Based on the Ijo oral saga of Ozidi, a posthumous hero raised to avenge his father's murder, this play stages the seven-night ritual performance in literary form, combining violence, prophecy, and spectacle.

Ghana's first published play by an African woman. An African American woman marries a Ghanaian and returns with him to Africa, where she is caught between two worlds, belonging fully to neither.

Based on a Ghanaian legend, the play follows Anowa who defies her parents to marry the man she loves, only to watch him become a slave trader. A bold critique of complicity in the slave trade.

Jointly devised with actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona. A Black South African man takes on a dead man's passbook to work legally — an indictment of the apartheid pass laws through sharp comedy and tragedy.

Two prisoners on Robben Island rehearse Antigone for a prison concert. The performance becomes an act of defiance. Based on real events; Winston Ntshona and John Kani co-devised and originally performed it.

Two brothers in a shack outside Port Elizabeth — one dark-skinned, one light enough to pass for white — enact apartheid's cruelties on each other. Fugard's breakthrough work.