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Janet Suzman on Athol Fugard, ‘a writer of true integrity’

The actor recalls her interactions with one of South Africa’s greatest playwrights

The Guardian - UK

Athol Fugard obituary

South African playwright whose work dealt with the injustices and absurdities of the apartheid era

The Guardian - UK

Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92

A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island

The Guardian - UK

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

Putting on Shakespeare’s tragedy at Johannesburg’s Market theatre was a risky endeavour and caused an astonishing reaction

The Guardian - UK

Meet the Murder Mystery 2 cast: who's who in the crime comedy

Murder Mystery 2 cast — Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are back for more in the second installment of the crime comedy.

WhatToWatch

Friendship, humanity are put to the test amid the most horrific of circumstances in ‘The Island’

Brotherhood, tyranny, unjust incarceration, revolution — there’s much to unpack thematically in “The Island,” but director Gabrielle Randle-Bent propels the dialogue with a clarity that shines like a knife and an urgency that can’t be denied.

Chicago Sun-Times

South African Lion King cast member 'baffled' by Meghan Markle's Mandela comment

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, recalled an interaction during a premiere of The Lion King in London back in 2019, saying one well-wisher told her that her marriage was celebrated as much as the freeing of Nelson Mandela

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South African Lion King actor ‘baffled’ over Meghan Markle comments

Dr John Kani said that the royal wedding was ‘no big deal’ in South Africa

The Independent UK

Theater Legend Kani Turns Eye to Modern South Africa

When John Kani launched his acting career in the 1960s, the only stage he could find was an empty snake pit at a shuttered South African museum. His latest production, "Kunene and the King", opened with the Royal Shakespeare Company and played on London's West End. It's now resuming a…

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