Letter: Athol Fugard obituary
In 1988 Athol Fugard was in London, directing his play A Place With the Pigs at the National Theatre. I was its executive director at the time, and asked him what he thought about the theatre world's boycott of apartheid South Africa. He felt it had achieved nothing, other than to do the work of the censor. In his view, banning ideas is what fascist governments have sought to do throughout history. Continue reading..…