Three Port Elizabeth plays : The blood knot, Boesman and Lena, Hello and goodbye / Athol Fugard

Includes glossary.

The blood knot -- Hello and goodbye -- Boesman and Lena.

"Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost playwright, was once described by a critic abroad as "one of several living advertisements for the artistic advantages of a repressive regime." As a white [man], he has long battled for mixed casts and desegregated audiences in his apartheid ruled country, and at one point suffered the loss of his passport. These three searing and tender dramas - which have all been given successful productions in both America and Great Britain - challenge his government's efforts to frustrate his goals. They also make absorbing, sophisticated reading. All three take place in and around Port Elizabeth, and industrial port on the Indian Ocean and Fugard home town In them, people struggle with their time and place to comprehend their lives. Two "Coloured" (mixed-race) brothers in The Blood Knot, one light-skinned and the other dark, explore the pain and color of kinship. In Hello and Goodbye, a young white man confronts his flashy prostitute sister, who has come to claim some of their dead father's money. In Boesman and Lena, the death of an old black man on the mudflats outside the city illuminates the bond between two "Coloured" derelicts." -- From the book jacket.