My Children! My Africa! at The Rollins Theater at the Long Center for the Performing Arts

Austin Shakespeare presents a staged reading for two performances only of one of the 20th and 21st Century’s great playwrights, Athol Fugard. Fugard’s acclaimed play tells the tale of the efforts of a spectacular Black teacher in a segregated township trying to persuade a young man that education, not violence, is the answer to South Africa’s problems. His teenage students are being coached by the teacher to join together in a literary competition.