The Island is a major work within the cannon of anti-Apartheid theater movement. Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's play was one of the most prominent of the era/movement, however, the three playwrights went on to write a host of other plays, both collaboratively and individually, that continued to echo the anti-apartheid sentiments, including, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, My Children! My Africa, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, No-Good Friday, Boesman and Lena, and Master Harold and the Boys.
The anti-apartheid movement lasted through 1994 and influenced not only the aforementioned theater movement, but also fiction and non-fiction South African literary authors, like Nelson...
