![]() Exiled parties and people who were released from the problem tried to let me people know what was happening, but difficult to create literature and art: segregational theatres and restaurants. Banning of news reports of opposition and overseas, but impossible to silence people completely. 1970s: Early 1970s seemed to be continuation of ‘60s. and John, the intellectual, is trying to persuade him to play …show more content… The story traces the relationship of these two men. John has been imprisoned for belonging to a banned organization. Winston has been sentenced to prison for life because he burned his passbook in front of a police station. It takes place in four scenes, opening with a lengthy mimed sequence in which John and Winston, two cell mates in prison on Robben Island, carry out one of the totally pointless and exhausting tasks designed by warders to break the spirit of political prisoners. The Island is a Fugard play that resorts to the Classics to protest Apartheid.
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