Valley Song

by Athol Fugard

Book Overview

"Valley Song is a vivid, haunting, serreptitiously personal report from the front. It's a complex play, simply and beautifully done." -Vincent Canby, New York Times

Rarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served as one of the moral beacons in the bleak world of South Africa, and now, in Valley Song-this coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559361190
• ISBN13: 9781559361194
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A moving exploration of the landscape of the human heart.

With the blight of apartheid lifted from South Africa, Athol Fugard, that nation's dominant voice in the theater, turns toward a quieter, more introspective story. It is daring in its simplicity, and absolutely shattering in its emotional impact. Its lovely, rural musings on hope, despair, and growth resonate far beyond the fields the action inhabits. There is an excellent framing device of an author (meant to represent Fugard, himself) in whose perceptual inadequacies we find a mirror for our own. Highly recommended.