Frank Ulrich Marcus (30 June 1928 – 5 August 1996) was a British playwright, best known for The Killing of Sister George.
Marcus was born 30 June 1928 into a Jewish family in Breslau (then in Germany).
When a theatre company in apartheid South Africa asked to put on a production of The Killing of Sister George, Marcus’s immediate instinct was to simply refuse.
However, after much consideration, he decided instead that he could do more good and make more of a stance by allowing it to be seen there - under the strict proviso that the audiences would be mixed and non-segregated.
Every penny this production earned was divided between Amnesty International (specifically for the freeing of South African political prisoners) and a black theatre group in Soweto.