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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The Closing of South Africa’s Fugard Theatre Points to Systemic Failures
The Theatre Times: The closing down of the Fugard means far more than just the loss of one more place where artists, technicians and arts administrators could have earned a living. The Fugard rose like a phoenix in democratic South Africa. It was located in an area that had once been demolished by apartheid’s bulldozers during the destruction of the mixed-race suburb District Six as a result of the Group Areas Act of 1950.
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