The 14th Audio Drama Awards celebrated the BBC’s commitment to audio drama and comedy, with Bill Dare posthumously awarded ...

Filmmaker and actor Gavin Hood reflects on his relationship with the late South African novelist, playwright and director, ...

In works like “Blood Knot,” “Master Harold” and “The Island,” he laid bare the realities of racial separatism in his homeland, South Africa. By Bruce Weber Bruce Weber is a former ...

While Blood Knot was the classic, my favourite was Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (published in 1972 ... They rehearse Sophocles’ Antigone, the tale of a woman who defies a king’s decree to bury ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

Dare, who tragically passed away earlier this month following an accident overseas, leaves behind a legacy of award-winning satirical programmes for radio and TV, including Dead Ringers ...

One particularly pretty area of the city is the Antigone district ... who is said to have risen from the dead. Rhodes island is home to around 56,000 people and is the ideal spot for experiencing ...

He told me that they were doing a play called Antigone by Sophocles. This excited me so I said ... In 1972 Winston, Athol and I created Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and in 1973 together we created The Island ...