There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life. Athol Fugard Read Quote
People come to the Fountain Theatre because they’ve got hearts that are working and they’ve got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they’re living in. Athol Fugard Read Quote
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy… and I believed that I didn’t really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore. Athol Fugard Read Quote
You’ll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I’ve written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me. Athol Fugard Read Quote
You can’t legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. Athol Fugard Read Quote
The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody’s got to tell the truth, you know what I mean? Athol Fugard Read Quote
Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people’s lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political. Athol Fugard Read Quote
For most of my writing life, I’ve refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue. Athol Fugard Read Quote
