He founded a group of amateur actors known as the Serpent Players and developed the concept of "pure theater" after coming across the ideas of drama theorist Jerzy Grotowski.  
He founded a group of amateur actors known as the Serpent Players and developed the concept of "pure theater" after coming across the ideas of drama theorist Jerzy Grotowski.  He produced his first play, No-Good Friday, in 1958 and collaborated with John Kani and Winston Ntshona on such dramas as The Island and Sizwe Bansi is Dead.  His work Tsotsi depicted Sophiatown ghetto existence, while Playland is set on the eve of Nelson Mandela's release from prison.  FTP, identify this South African playwright perhaps best known for "MASTER HAROLD"...and the Boys and The Blood Knot.
He founded a group of amateur actors known as the Serpent Players and developed the concept of "pure theater" after coming across the ideas of drama theorist Jerzy Grotowski.  
Athol Fugard