The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
by Fugard, Athol
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, pub. without d/j, printed boards good but with some rubbing esp. on spine; foxing on endpapers, otherwis
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About This Item
Johannesburg: Simondium, 1963. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, pub. without d/j, printed boards good but with some rubbing esp. on spine; foxing on endpapers, otherwise pages clean and unmarked, tightly bound.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and Zachariah. Both were raised by the same black mother, but have different fathers, and Morris is much more fair-skinned than Zachariah. Morris can pass for white, and has done so in the past, but now he has returned to live with Zachariah in a small, miserable shack in the ""colored"" section of Port Elizabeth. Morris keeps the house, while Zachariah works to support them both. They are saving money in hopes of buying a farm of their own some day. Both Morris and Zachariah have rich imaginations and have taken part in role-playing games together since they were small boys.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC51719
- Title
- The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- Author
- Fugard, Athol
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, pub. without d/j, printed boards good but with some rubbing esp. on spine; foxing on endpapers, otherwis
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simondium
- Place of Publication
- Johannesburg
- Date Published
- 1963
- Pages
- 131
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, drama, South Africa, Fugard
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
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