Several of his plays, including The Island, were largely a result of improvisation, while a woman giving premature birth formed the basis for The Cell, which both he and his wife Sheila claim was his first work.  
He gave himself a minor role as Father Higgins in an "apprenticeship work" about Willie Seopola.  Several of his plays, including The Island, were largely a result of improvisation, while a woman giving premature birth formed the basis for The Cell, which both he and his wife Sheila claim was his first work.  His play focusing on Zachariah and his lighter-skinned half-brother Morris was grouped in his Family Trilogy with Hello and Goodbye and Boesman and Lena.  Another work features the waiters Willie and Sam, who drops his pants after hearing a racist joke from Hally.  FTP name this South African playwright of Blood Knot and Master Harold...and the Boys.
He gave himself a minor role as Father Higgins in an "apprenticeship work" about Willie Seopola.  
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard