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 ''[[The Train Driver]]'' is set in a graveyard outside Motherwell in the Eastern Cape in February 2001. It is about a man (Roelf Visagie, a train driver) in search of redemption.
-The play is published by [[Faber and Faber]], 2010; and in ''[[The Train Driver and Other Plays'', by the [[Theatre Communications Group]] in 2012.
+The play is published by [[Faber and Faber]], 2010; and in ''[[The Train Driver and Other Plays]]'', by the [[Theatre Communications Group]] in 2012.
 == Performances ==

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 ''[[The Train Driver]]'' is set in a graveyard outside Motherwell in the Eastern Cape in February 2001. It is about a man (Roelf Visagie, a train driver) in search of redemption.
-The play is published by Faber and Faber, 2010; and in ''The Train Driver and other plays'', Theatre Communications Group, 2012.
+The play is published by [[Faber and Faber]], 2010; and in ''[[The Train Driver and Other Plays'', by the [[Theatre Communications Group]] in 2012.
 == Performances ==

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		+	[[Marianne McDonald]]. 2012''The Craft of Athol Fugard. Space, Time and Silence'' . Los Angeles: Murasaki Books.

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 == Performances ==
-It was first produced in 2010 at the [[Fugard Theatre]] in Cape Town, South Africa, directed by [[Athol Fugard]] with [[Sean Taylor]] and [[Owen Sejake]]. The production was designed by [[Saul Radomsky]] with lighting by [[Mannie Manim]] and sound by [[John Leonard]].
+: It was first produced at the [[Fugard Theatre]] in Cape Town, South Africa, directed by [[Athol Fugard]] with [[Sean Taylor]] and [[Owen Sejake]]. The production was designed by [[Saul Radomsky]] with lighting by [[Mannie Manim]] and sound by [[John Leonard]].
-The United States Premiere was presented at the Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles from 16 October 2010, to 30 January 2011, to rave reviews and the Hampstead Theatre, London where it previewed from 4 November 2010 and opened on 9 November 2010.
+: The United States premiere was presented at the Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles from 16 October 2010, to 30 January 2011, to rave reviews and the Hampstead Theatre, London where it previewed from 4 November 2010 and opened on 9 November 2010.
 == Sources ==

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-The play was inspired by a real-life incident in which a mother and her three children were killed on the railway tracks between Philipp and Nyanga on the Cape Flats in December 2000. Fugard first wrote about the event as ''Fact and Fiction'' ('Pages from a notebook' and 'To whom it MUST concern') in his collection of stories in ''[[Karoo and other stories]]'' (published by David Philip, 2005).
+The play was inspired by a real-life incident in which a mother and her three children were killed by an oncoming train on the railway tracks between Philippi and Nyanga on the Cape Flats in December 2000. Fugard first wrote about the event as ''Fact and Fiction'' ('Pages from a notebook' and 'To whom it MUST concern') in his collection of stories in ''[[Karoo and other stories]]'' (published by David Philip, 2005).
 ''[[The Train Driver]]'' is set in a graveyard outside Motherwell in the Eastern Cape in February 2001. It is about a man (Roelf Visagie, a train driver) in search of redemption.

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 The play was inspired by a real-life incident in which a mother and her three children were killed on the railway tracks between Philipp and Nyanga on the Cape Flats in December 2000. Fugard first wrote about the event as ''Fact and Fiction'' ('Pages from a notebook' and 'To whom it MUST concern') in his collection of stories in ''[[Karoo and other stories]]'' (published by David Philip, 2005).
-''[[The Train Driver]]'' is about a man in search of redemption.
+''[[The Train Driver]]'' is set in a graveyard outside Motherwell in the Eastern Cape in February 2001. It is about a man (Roelf Visagie, a train driver) in search of redemption.
 The play is published by Faber and Faber, 2010.