No-Good Friday

by Athol Fugard. A look at the deprivations, violence and problems of township life governed by tsotsis. Written by Fugard on the basis of a workshop in rehearsal space provided by Union Artists, with the help of Lewis Nkosi, Bloke Modisane, Nat Nasaka, Sheila Fugard and the performers. First performed at the Bantu Mens’s Social Centre, Johannesburg on 30 August 1958, with “Hal Lannigan” (Fugard) as “Father Higgins”, followed by four nights at the Brian Brooke Theatre in the same city that year (when Lewis Nkosi took over the role, to make it an all-black cast according to the laws of the time). First published in 1958??*. Included in a variety of play collections over the years. (Kruger:88-89) Published in Dimetos and Two Early Plays by Oxford University Press.

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