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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
World première at the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria (1997) with [[Athol Fugard]], [[Owen Sejake]] and [[Jennifer Steyn]], directed by Fugard and [[Susan Hilferty]].
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World première at the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria with [[Athol Fugard]], [[Owen Sejake]] and [[Jennifer Steyn]], directed by Fugard and [[Susan Hilferty]] in 1997.
  
 
== Performance history ==
 
== Performance history ==

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by Athol Fugard (1997). Published by Wits University Press, Johannesburg in 1997.

Subject

In The Captain’s Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage (1997) the 65-year-old playwright takes a close look at the 20-year-old Fugard, the young writer who dropped out of the University of Cape Town, hitch-hiked through Africa, found a job on a tramp steamer in Port Sudan, made friends with a black man for the first time and wrestled with the creative process while starting to write his first novel, inspired by his mother. [Van Heerden (2008)][1]p. 126.

It's 1952 on an old cargo ship somewhere on the Red Sea. A young man is beginning a "great adventure": a trip away from home, a voyage around the world, a journey to manhood, and a writer's odyssey. This is the setting for Athol Fugard's dramatic examination of his life as an artist shaped both by the family that raised him and the horrors of Apartheid in his war torn South African homeland. Subtitled a "Memoir for the Stage", the play is told both from the point of view of the twenty-year-old author who was the captain's tiger (a glorified personal servant to the ship's captain) and the author as his current-day self. This is a fascinating voyage - a writer's pilgrimage, a whole painful process we are privy to. We witness his coming of age through author monologues, re-creations of onboard conversations, letters written to his mother, imagined discourse, and dreams. Fugard has created a personal dramatic structure moving from present to past, from reality to reverie. One of the author's most imaginative works, Fugard has created a world with imagery that is visual, visceral, and poetic. (books/google)

Performance history in South Africa

World première at the State Theatre in Pretoria with Athol Fugard, Owen Sejake and Jennifer Steyn, directed by Fugard and Susan Hilferty in 1997.

Performance history

Opened at the State Theatre in Pretoria (1997) with Athol Fugard, Owen Sejake and Jennifer Steyn, directed by Fugard and Susan Hilferty. Opened in May 1998 in the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, USA with Athol Fugard, Owen Sejake and Jennifer Steyn, directed by Fugard and Susan Hilferty. Staged in July and August 1997 at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, USA with Fugard, Felicity Jones and Tony Todd.

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http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_captain_s_tiger.html?id=og9aAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

[Van Heerden (2008)][2]

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