In 2009, Lanipekun played Danilo in Dimetos, by Athol Fugard, at the Donmar Warehouse with Jonathan Pryce, directed by Douglas Hodge.
Before he opened the Market, he staged multi-racial plays anywhere he could: in warehouses and shantytowns, storefronts and back yards, including Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot (1961).
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He was the first to stage many of Athol Fugard’s plays, directed a film for the BBC of Nadine Gordimer’s story "City Lovers", and worked with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière on the French translation for the Paris production by Peter Brook of Simon’s last play, The Suit (Le Costume) (1994).
In 2001, she was chosen for the role of Lena in the play Boesman and Lena, written and directed by South African playwright Athol Fugard.
In 2012, Jacobs interpreted the role of Hally in the Athol Fugard masterpiece Master Harold and the Boys alongside Christo Davids (as Willie) and Terence Bridgette (as Sam) .
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During 2009, at the KKNK, Volksblad and Aardklop festivals, Jacobs performed opposite Christo Davids in Athol Fugard’s, Bloed Broers (The Blood Knot).
She is a writer of short stories and plays and the wife of South African playwright Athol Fugard.
Hilferty has collaborated often with playwright Athol Fugard and has designed for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, and the Roundabout.
Biral led a local 1997 production of Michael Christopher's play, The Lady and the Clarinet, and more recently, Werner Schwab's The Presidents and Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, among numerous other plays and television appearances.
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Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard, performed first, but only one time, in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1961, with the playwright Fugard and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah.
She has worked extensively both in the West End and on the Fringe, and has appeared in the US in several productions, including Richard III and An Enemy of the People opposite Sir Ian McKellen, Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, Terence McNally's Master Class, Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" (San Francisco Bay Critics' Award), and most recently Alan Bennett's "History Boys" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
Other regional credits include Hally in Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard at Gables Stage, Joe in The Last Sunday in June at Caldwell Theatre, David in the one man show Santaland Diaries at Fresco Productions in residence at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, Jake Mace in House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn and Turkey in Johnny Guitar all at Actor's Playhouse.
Mainstage productions have included plays by Amiri Baraka, Aisha Rahman, Athol Fugard, Federico García Lorca, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Cheryl West, María Irene Fornés, and August Wilson, as well as original stage adaptations of the poetry of Langston Hughes and Kevin Young (poet).
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (originally produced and published as: Sizwe Bansi is Dead) is a play by Athol Fugard, written collaboratively with two South African actors, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, both of whom appeared in the original production.
The complex also contains the Master Harold tearoom which was used as the setting for the apartheid era play "Master Harold"...and the Boys by Athol Fugard.
In 1980, the play was adapted into a film directed by Ross Devenish, with Melton played by John Kani, Athol Fugard as Paulus, and Winston Ntshona as Daan.
We Won't Pay!, by Dario Fo (March 12 - May 15); Oliver!, by Lionel Bart, (May 28 - August 29); The Road to Mecca, by Athol Fugard (September 10 - October 23); and The Secret Garden, book by Jim Crabtree, music and lyrics by Sharon Burgett, additional lyrics by Sue Beckwith-Smith and Diana Matterson, from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.