Exits and Entrances - Acting Edition

THE STORY: EXITS AND ENTRANCES is the story of a relationship between a young man on the threshold of his career as a playwright and an aging actor who has reached the end of his career on the stage. The play is based directly on Fugard's own early formative experiences in South African theatre and the effectthat the legendary Afrikaans actor Andr Huguenet had on him in shaping his own vision of theatre. It is a play in which the young man's optimism and hope balance the despair and disillusionment of the aging actor. The action takes place in a series of scenes set in various dressing rooms during which the confrontation between two starkly differing realities plays out with humor, pathos and dramatic power. As the rave reviews of the premiere in Los Angeles reveal, this is a play that is intensely human and speaks to everyone. But, above all else, this is a play that celebrates theatre and its abiding significance. From the two very different perspectives of the young man and the old actor, EXITS AND ENTRANCES also reflects the search for a theatre of relevance in an oppressive society.Athol Fugard is the author of 'Exits and Entrances - Acting Edition', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822220411 and ISBN 0822220415.