Blood Knot - Audio Cassette

Literature & Fiction

Athol Fugard

Poetry

Collins

Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.

"Master Harold" and the Boys (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature)

Essays & Correspondence

HARCOURT, BRACE

(Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island; Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act.)

Statements: Three Plays

John Kani

Dramas & Plays

Oxford Press

The four plays in this edition of Athol Fugard's best work are set among the people and in the place he knows most intimately - Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where he grew up. Each explores a close and tense family situation or relationship against the background of wider suffering and tensions, engaging our sympathies for South Africans of all races in their struggle to retain dignity and hope.

PORT ELIZABETH PLAYS: MASTER HAROLD, BLOOD KNOT, HELLO AND GOODBYE, BOESMAN AND LENA.

The five plays collected here offer a unique insight into the role of theatre in a situation of oppression. They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts, drawing on their lives and everyday experiences in the townships. They range from the early apprentice work of the brash but vital Sophiatown plays, No-Good Friday and Nongogo, to the freer, more urgent, and profound New Brighton plays, including the most famous Sizwe Bansi is Dead and IThe Island, and the previously unavailable The Coat.

Township Plays

Oxford University Press

An argument between Master Harold, a seventeen-year-old South African, and Sam, the Black man employed at Harold's mother's restaurant, makes them reevaluate their friendship.

Master Harold and the Boys

World Literature

Alfred.A. Knopf

Are aging Miss Helen's bizarre sculptures, fashioned from beer cans and old headlights, evidence of artistry or insanity? South Africa's preeminent playwright Athol Fugard explores the backwaters of human creativity in this inquiry into the transformative power of art.

The Road to Mecca: A Play in Two Acts Suggested by the Life and Work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda

Faber and Faber

Written for a cast of 1 man and 1 woman, this deceptively simple play is about a South African who is visited by his sister after a very long absence. Yes, he says; he and Dad have been getting along well enough, but no, she can't talk to him because he's asleep in the next room. Sister has really come home because she believes Dad has secreted 500 Pounds somewhere in the house, and she wants to make a deal with her brother; he can keep the house as his part of the heritage, if he'll let her find and keep the money. Their memories work back and forth, and the brother tries to keep passions down so that father will not be awakened. But in the end the terrible truths of this family drama develop into an image of the disastrous plight of the entire nation of South Africa. Father is dead; the only inheritance they have is the land, the squalor and the misery.

Hello and Goodbye: A Play in Two Acts

Samuel. French

People are living there: A drama in two acts

French

A drama for 2 males. Blood Knot is a parable of two brothers who share a one-room shack near Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Zachariah is dark-skinned and Morris, light-skinned. They share the same mother but find their differences lead them to a common bond as brothers and men. Saving to buy a farm where they may retire Morris is the "slave", cooking and cleaning while Zach earns money for them both. When Morrie joins a lonely hearts club on his brother's behalf, they find themselves awaiting the visit of a White woman who will never arrive.

The Blood Knot: A Play in Three Acts

S. French

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