A Lesson from Aloes

A Lesson from Aloes
Written byAthol Fugard
Date premiered1978
SubjectApartheid

A Lesson from Aloes is a 1978 play by South African playwright Athol Fugard. It is the story of Piet Bezuidenhout, a red-faced, big-hearted Afrikaner, who is suspected of being an informer; Gladys, his fragile embittered wife, whose tenuous hold on sanity has been broken by a routine police raid during which her diaries were ransacked; and Steve Daniels, a Colored activist just out of jail and about to leave South Africa for England on an Exit visa (which means he can never return).

The play was first performed in the U.S. at Yale University in 1980, in a production starring James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin, and Maria Tucci.

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