For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I
have written before has been a journey to this.--Athol Fugard
A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It
will save us from hopelessness. See it.--Sunday Independent
The Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most
important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a
chronicler of his native South Africa's apartheid past, directed its
premiere at the newly opened Fugard Theater in one of Cape Town's most
politically contentious areas. This seminal work was inspired by the
true story of a mother who, with her three children, committed suicide
on the train tracks in Cape Town. The two-person drama unfolds between
the train's engineer and the grave digger who buries the ones without
names. This edition also includes Coming Home, Fugard's first work
addressing AIDS in South Africa, and Have You Seen Us? his first play
set in America, about a South African transplanted to San Diego, where
the playwright currently resides.
Athol Fugard's works includes Blood Knot, Master Harold. . .and
the Boys, Boesman and Lena, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and My Children!
My Africa! He has been widely produced in South Africa, London, on
Broadway, and across the United States.
