The Occupation

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The Occupation is a screenplay by Athol Fugard (1932-).

The original text

The Occupation is a script for the camera, set just after the second World War, in which four marginalised white tramps explore a derelict house. The piece explores the effects of war, as well as attitudes towards race, cultures and the future of South Africa.

First published in the Cape Town journal, Contrast, in April 1964, and later 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 (1990).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

My Children! My Africa! and selected shorter plays. (ed Stephen Gray). 1990. Wits University Press.

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