Fugard's powerhouse packs no less punch

"My Children! My Africa!" opened in December 1989, two months before Nelson Mandela was freed from prison. I remember marveling how Athol Fugard's deceptively simple three-character powerhouse had prepared us so directly for the complicated swell of idealism and factionalism ahead for oppressed South Africans, the ongoing rioting and paranoia and black-on-black violence in their squalid forced homelands.

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