People Are Living There : A Play in Two Acts by Athol Fugard

Published by Oxford University Press, 1970, softcover, 72 pages, condition: very good.

"In many respects this appears to be an aberrant work. It has neither a Port Elizabeth setting, nor, seemingly, a socio-political context of any significance. It deviates from my other work in still a third it was written more directly from my life than any other play" - Athol Fugard.

Athol Fugard (1932 2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright and acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time magazine in 1985, he published more than thirty plays. He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid, some of which have been adapted to film. His novel Tsotsi was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005. Three plays he wrote, and two plays he co-authored, were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.