David Lan: In the age of apartheid, theatre resisted
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.…
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