Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Too much chat

Ed Hall, boss of the Hampstead theatre, places before our consideration a new play by Athol Fugard.

issue 20 November 2010

Ed Hall, boss of the Hampstead theatre, places before our consideration a new play by Athol Fugard. The gong-grabbing, apartheid-drubbing South African author creates dramas that are rich in humanity and compassion, filled with curiosity about the architecture of suffering, and distinguished by flights of poetic soulfulness. And by God, they’re dull.

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