This near-legendary short play, devised by Athol Fugard with the actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona (who gave their names to its characters), was first shown - daringly - in Cape Town in 1973, during the apartheid era. Its effect then must have been electric, and some of that visceral intensity still shone out in one of the pair's own last performances of the piece at the Old Vic in 2002.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AM on November 13, 2013