Summary Of The Captain's Tiger By Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard

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• 1932 Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard is born June 11 in Middleburg, Cape Province,
South Africa.
• 1938 Fugard attends Marist Brothers College, a private Catholic primary school.
• Town, studying philosophy. He drops out after two1951-1953 Fugard attends the University of Cape years.
• 1953-1955 Fugard travels throughout Africa where he discovers his love for writing and wrote The Captain’s Tiger: A Memoir for the stage, but was only published in 1999.
• 1956 He writes his first play, Klaas and The Devil; it is produced in Cape Town in 1957.
• 1958 Fugard is a clerk in the native Commissioners Court in Fordsburg. He
Moves to Johannesburg. He is hired as the stage manager at the National Theatre
Organisation.
• 1959 The Fugards move to London.
• 1959 novel Tsotsi is published, and then later made in a major movie. His mother also dies in this year.
• 1962 Fugard supports the anti-apartheid movement and encourages antiapartheid
Demonstrations in London.
• 1965 Hello and Goodbye is produced in Johannesburg; it plays at the Sheridan
Square Playhouse in New York City in 1969. At this time it was seen as he’s best play
• 1966 Fugard directs his new play The Coat, the first paly also directed by him.
• 1969 Boesman and Lena is produced in Grahams town, South Africa, then at
Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City in 1970.
• 1971 The South African government returns Fugard’s passport and he is permitted to leave South Africa for England to direct his Boesman and Lena.
• 1972 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (written with John Kani and Winston Ntshona, actors with The Serpent Players) is produced in Cape Town, then on Broadway at the
Edison Theatre in 1974. The Island (also written with Kani and Ntshona) is produced in Cape Town, then at the...

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...He goes into an alley to relieve himself and finds a dead man there. Sizwe wants to report the body to the police. Buntu retrieves the dead man’s identity book to find his address. Buntu finds that the man, named Robert Zwelinzima, has a work-seeker’s permit — the very thing that Sizwe needs to stay in town. They take the book. At Buntu’s house, Buntu switches the photographs in the books. He proposes that they burn Sizwe’s book — effectively making him dead — and have Sizwe adopt the dead man’s identity so he can stay in Port Elizabeth. Sizwe is unsure about the plan he worries about his wife and children. After much discussion, Sizwe agrees to the switch. Sizwe finishes dictating the letter to his wife. In it he tells her that Buntu is helping him get a lodger’s permit. The scene shifts back to the photography studio Sizwe is getting his picture taken by Styles.

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