Reading list
Barrow, Brian, and Yvonne Williams-Short (eds) Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987 (The Baxter Theatre)
Benson, Mary. Athol Fugard and Barney Simon: Bare stage, a few props, great theatre (Ravan Press)
Coplan, David. In Township Tonight (Ravan Press)
Erlmann, Veit. African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance (University of Chicago Press)
Fugard, Athol: Notebooks (Ad Donker)
Goodman, Lizbeth. Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today (Harwood Academic Pub)
Gunner, Liz. Politics and Performance: Theatre Poetry and Song in Southern Africa (Witwatersrand University Press)
Kavanagh, R Mshengu. Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa (Zed Press)
Kruger, Loren. The Drama of South Africa: Plays, pageant and Publics since 1910 (Routledge)
Orkin, Martin (ed and introduced). At the Junction (Witwatersrand University Press)
Orkin, Martin. Drama and the South African State
(Witwatersrand University Press and Manchester University Press)
Peterson, Bkekizizwe. Monarchs, Missionaries and African Intellectuals (Witwatersrand University Press)
Schach, Leonard. The Flag is Flying (Human & Rousseau)
Schwartz, Pat. The Best of Company: The Story of Johannesburg's Market Theatre (Ad Donker)
Tucker, Percy. Just the Ticket (Jonathan Ball)
Vandenbroucke, Russel. Truths the Hand Can Touch: The Theatre of Athol Fugard (Ad Donker)
Wertheim, Albert. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World (Indiana University Press)
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