{"product_id":"the-train-driver-and-other-plays-9781559363860","title":"The Train Driver and Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"For me [\u003ci\u003eThe Train Driver\u003c\/i\u003e] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this.\"--Athol Fugard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it.\"--\u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Train Driver\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eComing Home\u003c\/i\u003e, Fugard's first work addressing AIDS in South Africa, and \u003ci\u003eHave You Seen Us?\u003c\/i\u003e his first play set in America, about a South African transplanted to San Diego, where the playwright currently resides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAthol Fugard\u003c\/b\u003e's works includes \u003ci\u003eBlood Knot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaster Harold. . .and the Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoesman and Lena\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSizwe Banzi is Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Children! My Africa!\u003c\/i\u003e He has been widely produced in South Africa, London, on Broadway, and across the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717850501394,"sku":"9781559363860","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9dbbae9a-cf83-4bb4-a8f9-2c42308c5823.jpg?v=1734628188","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-train-driver-and-other-plays-9781559363860","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}