Frieda and Errol have an illicit relationship in this author’s play Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who depicted a doomed romance with Ethel Lange (“lang”) in a two-hander play about the lives of the brothers Morris and Zachariah under apartheid.
ANSWER: Athol Fugard (The unmentioned play is Blood Knot.)
[10e] Around the time Statements premiered, Fugard, John Kani, and Wilson Ntshona (“unt-SHO-nah”) co-wrote The Island, in which characters perform Antigone, a play by this Greek tragedian of Oedipus Rex.
ANSWER: Sophocles
[10h] Both Statements and this other play by Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona premiered in 1972. Its protagonist dictates a letter to his wife before having his picture taken in Styles’ studio.
ANSWER: Sizwe Banzi is Dead [or Sizwe Bansi is Dead]
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