Southern Africa
South Africa
Post-colonial
English
Drama
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.
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Fugard's first major play; one of the earliest theatrical assaults on apartheid
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editorial-summarynot primary textTwo 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. Fugard's first major play; one of the earliest theatrical assaults on apartheid
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