[
US
/ˈfjuˌɡɑɹd/
]
NOUN
- South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932)
How To Use Fugard In A Sentence
- A celebrated playwright of South Africa, Athol Fugard began his career in a courtroom.
- This may be Fugard's own form of self-indictment, but it unbalances the play by putting more stress on Afrikaaner angst than on the reality of black poverty. The Train Driver – review
- Even the play's slightly awkward structure, with its reminiscent soliloquies and resurrected hero, is made up for in Fugard's own production by the quality of the acting.
- Fugard the actor is determined to turn his country singlehandedly into a chief exporter of ham.
- Fugard the director tries to compensate for Fugard the writer by goosing his cast into jigging (the usual sense) and bopping.
- More important, Higgins was fully credible as a heroic actor, while Hurley was perfect as the callow, fervent young Fugard.
