The Train Driver and Other Plays

The Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a chronicler of his native South Africa-s apartheid past, directed its premiere at the newly opened Fugard Theater in one of Cape Town-s most politically contentious areas.

This seminal work was inspired by the true story of a mother who, with her three children, committed suicide on the train tracks in Cape Town. The two-person drama unfolds between the train-s engineer and the grave digger who buries the ones without names.

This edition also includes Coming Home, Fugard-s first work addressing AIDS in South Africa, and Have You Seen Us ? his first play set in America, about a South African transplanted to San Diego, where the playwright currently resides.