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'Blood Knot' Bleeds on Broadway: Apartheid in South Africa |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Gregory Speck |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 933 Words, 5,531 Characters |
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Of all the many woes afflicting mankind today, none seems to be arousing more strident worldwide recrimination than the issue of apartheid rule in South Africa. The urgency of the increasingly violent situation in the southern-most country of the African continent and the multiplicity of effects it is having on political, economic, and military activity elsewhere, is very likely the rationale for bringing Blood Knot, a twenty-five-year-old play by the white South African writer Athol Fugard, to Broadway.
The play premiered in 1961 in Sophiatown, a black shantytown outside Johannesburg, where it set a precedent of mixed-race casting, and thereby caused quite a stir: The drama t...
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...urn of events within the seedy tin and card-board shack (adroitly designed by Rusty Smith and eerily lighted by William Warfel), crates a sense of filthy confinement and anxious futility, probably not too different from that experienced by black South Africans twenty-five years ago as well as today. Blood Knot is now playing in a limited engagement at the Golden Theater in New York City.
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