But I did know that it had the structure, heart and drama to make an impact.

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This is high architectural drama, a luminous and exhilarating invitation into the structure's life and use.

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Inside it works well, with the steep walls of seating adding to the drama provided by the sinuously undulating roof of the core structure.

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But in its brutal structure of white power and black penury, apartheid also contained visceral drama, stories of humanity willing and waiting to break out in a demotic exuberance which in his township work Mr Fugard caught so well.

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Part promenade, part monument, the structure is an event, a happening, a unique combination of social and visual drama.

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