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en-wikipedia-org-3430		Athol Fugard - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	7664	1040	76	His mother, Marrie (Potgieter), an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a lodging house; his father, Harold Fugard, was a disabled former jazz pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot descent.[2][9][10] In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth.[11] In 1938, he began attending primary school at Marist Brothers College.[12] After being awarded a scholarship, he enrolled at a local technical college for secondary education and then studied Philosophy and Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town,[13] but he dropped out of the university in 1953, a few months before final examinations.[2] He left home, hitchhiked to North Africa with a friend, and then spent the next two years working in east Asia on a steamer ship, the SS Graigaur,[2] where he began writing, an experience "celebrated" in his 1999 autobiographical play The Captain's Tiger: a memoir for the stage.[14] In 1958, Fugard organised "a multiracial theatre for which he wrote, directed, and acted", writing and producing several plays for it, including No-Good Friday (1958) and Nongogo (1959), in which he and his colleague black South African actor Zakes Mokae performed.[2] In 1978, Richard Eder of The New York Times criticized Nongogo as "awkward and thin.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3430.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3430.txt