St. Louis American

Upstream’s ‘Blood Knot’ skillfully illustrates racial complexity

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) As John ...
Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol ...
The Village Voice

Blood Knot: Of Place and Race

On an interactive video display in the spacious, lively upstairs lobby of the Signature Theatre’s brand-new multi-theater complex, you can register your feelings about the place (from a ...
Los Angeles Times

Athol Fugard, South African theater artist whose works confronted apartheid, dies at 92

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold’ … and the Boys” to ...
Altoona Mirror

Playwright Fugard, whose works challenged apartheid, dies at 92

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “‘Master Harold’… and the Boys” ...
BroadwayWorld

Blood Knot 2012 - Articles Page 5

Between patchwork walls in a one-room shack, two biracial South African brothers grapple with crippling poverty and lonely isolation. Morris, the punctilious force that keeps their room tidy, is light ...