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  • Essay / Summary of Captain's Tiger By Harold Athol Lanigan...

    • 1932 Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard was born on June 11 in Middleburg, Cape Province, South Africa.• 1938 Fugard attended Marist Brothers College, a school private Catholic primary school. • City, studying philosophy. He left his studies after two years. 1951-1953 Fugard attended the University of Cape Town. • 1953-1955 Fugard traveled across Africa where he discovered his love for writing and wrote The Captain's Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage, but was not published until 'in 1999. • 1956 He writes his first play, Klaas and the Devil; it was produced in Cape Town in 1957.• 1958 Fugard is a clerk at the Fordsburg Local Commissioners Court. He moves to Johannesburg. He is hired as a stage manager at the National TheatreOrganisation.• 1959 The Fugards move to London.• 1959 The novel Tsotsi is published, then later made into a major film. His mother also died that year.• 1962 Fugard supported the anti-apartheid movement and encouraged anti-apartheid demonstrations in London.• 1965 Hello and Goodbye was produced in Johannesburg; she performed at the SheridanSquare Playhouse in New York in 1969. At that time, it was considered his best play.• 1966 Fugard directed his new play The Coat, the first play also directed by him.• 1969 Boesman and Lena was produced at Grahamstown, South Africa, and then at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York in 1970. • 1971 The South African government returned Fugard's passport and he was allowed to leave South Africa for England to direct his Boesman and Lena.• 1972 Sizwe Bansi died. (written with John Kani and Winston Ntshona, actors with The Serpent Players) was produced in Cape Town, then on Broadway at the Edison Theater in 1974. The Island (also written with Kani and Ntshona) was produced in Cape Town, then at Edison Theater. ..... middle of paper ......He enters an alley to relieve himself and finds a dead man there. Sizwe wants to report the body to the police. Buntu collects the dead man's identity book to find his address. Buntu discovers that the man, named Robert Zwelinzima, has a work permit – just what Sizwe needs to stay in town. They take the book. At Buntu's house, Buntu changes the photographs in the books. He proposes that they burn Sizwe's book – thus rendering him dead – and that Sizwe adopt the dead man's identity so that he can stay in Port Elizabeth. Sizwe is unsure about the project as he worries about his wife and children. After long discussions, Sizwe accepts the change. Sizwe finishes dictating the letter to his wife. He tells her that Buntu is helping him get a residence permit. The scene returns to the photography studio. Sizwe gets her photo taken by Styles..