Theatre legend John Kani turns eye to modern South Africa South African stage and movie actor John Kani, is now resuming a South African tour that was interrupted by the pandemic's theatre closures
South African stage and movie actor John Kani , who is also an author, director and play-writer, pose for a portrait in the backstage of the Johannesburg Theatre in Johannesburg, on 3 June, 2022 before a representation of ÒKunene and the KingÓ, a play written by Kani himself. – When John Kani launched his acting career in the 1960s, the only stage he could find was an empty snake pit at a shuttered South African museum.
His latest production, Kunene and the King, opened with the Royal Shakespeare Company and played on London’s West End.The play he wrote tasks Lunga Kunene — an older, black, male nurse — with caring for an older white actor dying of liver cancer but desperate to survive long enough to accept the role of Shakespeare’s King Lear.
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