The Occupation

by Athol Fugard. In this one-act play, set just after the second World War, four white tramps explore a derelict house. The becomes a symbolic representation of the scars of their past and reveals the effects of war, as well as attitudes towards race, cultures and the future of South Africa. First performed in 19* by *. First published in 1968 in Ten One-Act Plays (ed Cosmo Pieterse) by Heinemann. Also published in My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays by Wits University Press.

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