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Sunday, March 9, 2025

Janet Suzman on Athol Fugard: A writer of true integrity has gone by Janet Suzman

In a sense, Athol Fugard always remained a mystery. He was the sort of person in whose presence you felt a deep well of wisdoms hiding, wisdoms he would never divulge unless he trusted you, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PM
Monday, November 25, 2024

The play that changed my life: Janet Suzman on staging Othello in apartheid South Africa by Janet Suzman

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. Non…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM
Monday, June 4, 2018

Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? by Janet Suzman

From Cleopatra to Volumnia, Shakespeare wrote some glorious roles for female actors, but blokes get many of the best lines – and, in contemporary drama, still do Nel mezzo del cammin di no…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Janet Suzman: how Paul Scofield's genius silenced a rehearsal studio by Janet Suzman

I was Portia in Stratford one year when Paul walked in, dropped his coat and delivered a speech so masterful I would have played a grain of sand just to be in the same room as himThe Royal S…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26PM
Monday, February 24, 2014

Janet Suzman: how Paul Scofield's genius silenced a rehearsal studio by Janet Suzman

I was Portia in Stratford one year when Paul walked in, dropped his coat and delivered a speech so masterful I would have played a grain of sand just to be in the same room as himThe Royal S…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM

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