The theatre director and writer looks back at the spirit of protest that fuelled daring dramas staged in South Africa 50 years ago I grew up in South Africa during the bleak, violent, seemingly never-ending iron age of apartheid. In 1971, when I was studying acting at Cape Town University, the National Party government built a monolithic 1,500-seat theatre complex in a commanding position near the centre of the city.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM on May 26, 2021