...Barbara Mackay Copyright © by yale/theater 1972 1972 LEONCE AND LENA Barbara Mackay All three of Buchner’s plays are ex- Although the basic parodic nature of pressions of man trapped and deter- Leonce and Lena cannot be ignored, it mined by his environment...

...Frank Levy Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Fugard's Boesrnan and Lena Physical and Metaphysical Exhaustion Frank Levy ". . . tell him you saw usVladimir That Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena are colored people living in South Africa...

...Mark Bly Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 JOANNE AKALAITIS’S LEON AND LENA (AND LENZ):A LOG FROM THE DRAMATURG MARK BLY JoAnne...

...-white area close to the centre of the city. The mud flats, where Boesman and Lena confront each other, is at a point seven miles outside the city where the Swartkops River flows into the sea. The other places referred to in the latter play-Kleinskool, Veeplaas, Missionvale etc.-are shanty...

.... and unadorned human being about be- Boesrnan and Lena is also a very per- Your whole vocabulary as a writer is ing a soldier in the war, about the sonal statement for me, although my very different when you move into the hunger and the cold, those terrible days presence is a bit more disguised...

... of Boesman and Lena and also is when you stop smoking cigarettes, and is also a change in your career. A: Ja Ja 0: In what sense? A: Well, after I had done my last really commercial run of Boesman and Lena in South Africa, I decided to try and do something which had been sort...

..., the other dark skinned-of The Blood Knot; Hester and Johnnie Smit-children of a Poor White railway worker-of Hello and Goodbye; and Boesman and Lena,the Colored derelicts scratching for bait in the mudflats who are joined by a dying Xhosa. Poverty, pain, dumb dreams are their lot yet-battered...

... include man, you got to move on, man, you got to move matriarch Liliane Grandiflora; her aged, inef- on, man.” Rock music starts, and the actors fectual husband Leopold; nymphomaniac move gracefully into a pop song that has noth- daughter Lena; homosexual brother Leonard, a ing to do with the politics...

... deficien- and Other Lovers: ‘The Family for exam- critical distance essential to effective cy, which becomes clear in the light of ple, deals with ?’he Blood Knot, Hello and Good- biography. Yet, in the biographical sections Vandenbroucke’s statement of purpose in his bye and Roesman and Lena...

... ~ ..cI: -,0 30 Robert Christian and Frances Foster in Boesman and Lena at the Manhattan Theatre Club, 1977. Zakes Mokae, Ruby Dee and James Earl...

... and Fugard in Lena: ‘Why? Just by accident, paging back through this notebook, 1980 and, after some delay, Notebooks 1960-1977 has finally been the entries in October 1967. Plus a sudden realization of how lacking published by Knopf. Fugard stopped making entries in the late 70’s I am in tolerance...

...- previously by an actress who was doing A Lesson From Aloes in table. You put iron pilings together with sulphuric acid, you get a Amsterdam (she had also done Boeman and Lena). In the course of a very calculated result. Put two women together in a meaningful rela- conversation at the Rijksmuseum she...

... of The Blood Knot, Boesmun and Lena, and A Lessonjhm met him before.) When I saw the production, I knew that I wanted to Aloes, as well as the touting production of “Master Harold” . . . and the be a part of it. He directed the play here at Yale and in New York. boys. He is also knownfi extensive work...

... Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Chronology Of Fugard Plays 1958 No Good Friday 1959 Nongogo 1961 The Blood Knot 1963 People Are Living There 1965 Hello and Goodbye 1967 Mille Miglia (Television play) 1969 Boesman and Lena...

... of dreams. In The Blood Knot, Morrie and Zach relive their childhood in an escapist ride in an imaginary car. Milly and her lodgers in People Are Living There give a party at which, she insists, they must have a good time (whether or not they actually do). Lena pretends to understand the words of the Old...

... in criticism and dramaturgy at the Yale School of Drama, and a contributor to TheaterJournal and the Boston Herald American. Athol Fugard is the author of Boesman and Lena, The BloodKnot, The Island, People Are Living There, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, and other plays. His play A Lesson from Aloeshad its...

... brace of whose plays he ably trans- wrote: "One can, however, consider it lated, and something, though this ap- as the center and pinnacle of French plies chiefly to his comedy, Leonce national character, where all of its and Lena, from Musset. Yet these in- paradoxes...

...Carol Steinberg; Malcolm Purkey Copyright © Theater 1995 1995 Works Cited Bauer , Charlotte . “Into the Shadow of the Valley of Doubt with Lena's Inventor.” Sunday Times , November 27, 1994 . Kavanagh , Robert . Theatre and Culture Struggle in South Africa . London: Zed...

...? There seem to be some typical reactions to Master Harold from performance to performance. In the performances I’ve seen, Left: Novella Nelson as Lena, Zakes Mokae as Boesman in the play by the most notable one is the audience’s audible...

.... Translation of Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena with an introduction by Lee Baxandall. San Francisco: Chandler Publication Company, [ 19621 . Parker, John J. "Some Reflections on Georg Btlchner's Lenz and Its Principal Source the Obedin Record," German Lifeand Letters, 21, 103-111. Peacock...