In 1992, South African playwright Atol Fugard's life came to an end. The administration of Cape Town paid tribute to the playwright, who spent a large part of his career in the conditions of racial segregation, provoking reactions across the spectrum of actors and whites, and blacks, regardless of the prohibitions of this system.
According to The Guardian, in 2012 the production of 'the bold and tenacious African' aided in 'highlighting the brutality and inequities of this system, as well as its blatant absurdity.' In 2006, public attention was drawn to the white playwright with thick eyebrows when his film 'Tsotsi', based on a short story from 1961, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Fugard's first major play 'Blood Knot' was first performed in 1961. It tells the story of two brothers of different races, one of whom is played by a white man (Fugard himself), and the other a black one.
