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Characters
  
Oupa Boba

First performance
  
26 March 2014

Original language
  
English language

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Setting
  
Southern California

Playwright
  
Athol Fugard

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Written by
  
Athol Fugard (introductory scene by Paula Fourie)

Date premiered
  
26 March 2014 (2014-03-26)

Place premiered
  
Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven

Similar
  
Athol Fugard plays, Other plays

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The Shadow of the Hummingbird is a play written by South African playwright Athol Fugard. It made its world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, with its first run from 26 March to 23 April 2014. It was directed by Gordon Edelstein, the Long Wharf Theatre's artistic director, and starred Fugard as an elderly writer living in Southern California (loosely based on Fugard himself), when he is visited by his ten-year-old grandson. It marked Fugard's first appearance on stage as an actor in fifteen years.

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The title of the play comes from Fugard observing a hummingbird's shadow one day while writing at his home in San Diego. The opening scene, with the writer searching through his old notebooks and reading excerpts from them, was written by his life partner Paula Fourie, who based them on Fugard's diaries and unpublished notebooks.

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References

The Shadow of the Hummingbird Wikipedia