Putting on Shakespeare's tragedy at Johannesburg's Market theatre was a risky endeavour and caused an astonishing reaction It was 1987, three years before Nelson Mandela walked free. None of us knew that secret talks were going on with Mandela in prison. We saw apartheid lasting till the crack of doom. It seemed impregnable. The law had once banned "miscegenation". And here I was directing Othello, a play about misce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM on November 25, 2024