New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion The multiracial plays of Athol Fugard were exemplars of incendiary political theatre in apartheid-era South Africa. So incendiary that Fugard's passport was confiscated by the authorities after a BBC TV production of The Blood Knot in 1967. His play A Lesson from Aloe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AM on March 13, 2019