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Blood Knot

Athol Fugard
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Region

Southern Africa

South Africa

Era

Post-colonial

Language

English

Genre

Drama

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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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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. Fugard's first major play; one of the earliest theatrical assaults on apartheid

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