Fugard was a tremendous hero of the South African opposition. It was a collective creation by the two young actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, and the writer Athol Fugard. ![]() Each muscle of their bodies, every fibre of their being showed a complete, a crushing reality that they absolutely had to express.įor them, that empty space was the quarry on Robben Island, the island where Nelson Mandela and so many other brave men were imprisoned, where the isolation was so total, the security so tight, that the only news that got through was whispered from mouth to ear, or scribbled on tiny scraps of paper. Great drops of sweat poured from the two men. ![]() On an empty stage, for fifteen minutes, the only sound heard was that made by the repetitive movements of two men – two young black actors, moving from one side of the stage to the other in a mime of incredible precision: digging, filling wheelbarrows, pushing them, emptying them, digging, filling them again. In 1973, in London, a play from South Africa burst into the Royal Court Theatre like a bomb. ![]() From the National Theatre programme for The Island, 2000.
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