FROM THE ARCHIVES | Athol Fugard: A man of obstinacy and courage
A new documentary charts the struggle of playwright Athol Fugard against the violence of apartheid.
A new documentary charts the struggle of playwright Athol Fugard against the violence of apartheid.
Antonia Fraser
There was nothing ailing about Harold Pinter’s passionate and astonishing Nobel lecture, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail, reports Michael Billington.
There was something oddly Beckettian about Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture which now is blazing its way across the world’s media. It was Beckettian in that Pinter sat in a wheelchair, with a rug over his knees and framed by an image of his younger self, delivering his sombre message: memories of Hamm in Beckett’s Endgame came to mind.