Athol Fugard's many plays helped to build world antipathy to apartheid in his native South Africa, resulting in the end of white rule there. Now he has turned his attention for the first time to the brief era of black rule in that still uneasy nation.
The 69-year-old dramatist-actor-director, who now lives half of his time Del Mar, Calif., is back in New York with an oddly static new work, "Sorrows and Rejoicings," at the Off-Broadway Second Stage Theater. It centers on a South African white writer, Dawid Olivier, who has been forced into exile in London for his opposition to South Africa's minority white government and returns there after Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president in 1994.
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